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-From: James Kanze <kanze@gabi-soft.de>
-Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++.moderated
-Subject: Re: binary iostreams ?
-Date: 3 Feb 2001 14:28:19 -0500
-Message-ID: <86lmro86qp.fsf@alex.gabi-soft.de>
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-"Plinio Conti" <plinio.contiNO@SPAMMINGmclink.it> writes:
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-|> Why std c++ library stream classes are only text-oriented?
-
-Because that is the only universally recognized format.
-
-|> I mean, if I want to write an int, a float, etc. AS IT IS I can't
-|> use streams, because they write and read a human readable text
-|> format of numbers.
-
-Correct.
-
-|> Does anyone know how to solve the problem?
-
-It depends on what you really want to do. If you are just dumping a
-block of memory to disk, in order to free up memory, and will reread it
-later in the same run of the same program, ostream::write and
-istream::read are what you need. Note, however, that this ony works 1)
-in the same run of the same program, and 2) for PODs without pointers.
-
-If you are writing something that will be read by another program, or a
-later run of the same program, you'll have to define a specific format
-to use, and implement streams to input and output that. If you are
-writing something that will be read by an existing program, or be
-transmitted over a network to another machine, you will have to find out
-what protocol is expected, and adher to it.
-
-|> Any public library?
-
-Not that I know of. I think that there is a library somewhere that
-outputs in format RPC, or maybe some Internet format.
-
-|> What do you think about this choice?
-
-What other choice is possible? It's not reasonable to ask the standard
-to support all binary formats, and it's not reasonable for it to favor
-any one of them. Given that, what else can you do.
-
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