[Newbies] Re: binary streams, how to

Klaus D. Witzel klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Mon Oct 23 05:15:15 UTC 2006


Hi Petr,

on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:02:28 +0200, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> which methods shall I use for binary (fast) reads/writes to file
> (stream)?
> I need to write Boolean (1byte), Integers (4 or 8 bytes), Floats (?) and
> Strings into big files, but standard way via storeOn: (text
> representation) is inefficient for me.

You may want to look into the #'data get/put' messages category of  
PositionableStream, implementors of #int32: then alt-B

/Klaus

> Thanks, pf




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