On Wednesday, 2003-07-09, 05:31, Glynn Clements wrote: > [...] > There isn't a standard mechanism for binary I/O.
NHC98 contains the York Binary library. Can someone tell me if this is available for other Haskell systems? And didn't GHC also provide binary I/O? > However, a simple and fairly generic mechanism for doing this is: > > 1. Read in a list of "Char"s with the standard I/O functions. This will most likely cause problems under Windows. The reason is that the standard I/O functions are intended for reading and writing text, and that's why under Windows the sequence CRLF (#0D#0A) is interpreted as a single LF (#0A) and EOF (#1A) is interpreted as the end of the file. > 2. Use "map (fromIntegral . ord) ..." to get a list of "Word8"s (octets). This assumes that the standard I/O functions use a one byte character encoding. I don't now whether this is guaranteed by the Haskell report. > [...] Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell