Fri, 09 Aug 2002 15:24:55 +0200, George Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:
> but the fact is that the standard access functions return > characters*, and on Solaris the default representation of > a characters is as a signed quantity. Only because of a messy history. No need to transfer the silly concept of signed and unsigned characters into Haskell, Haskell doesn't need to sit on top of C - C is just a language. IMHO the best way to view binary file data is Word8. Network protocols and file formats are expressed in terms of octets, so programs which want to cooperate with the rest of the world must be somehow able to read/write them anyway. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/ _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell