After a lot of failures, I got this to work: ubyte[] b2 = cast (ubyte[]) read(fname); string n = cast (string) b2.get!string(); tracef("<%s>", n);
I feel like there should be a way for the xdr get to read directly from the file rather than reading it all into a buffer first, but no combination of File f = File(fname, "r"); and get that I tried would compile.
Also is using cast like this good practice? -- Chris