Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> I need to do some things with files (text and binaries), and I would
> need information about creating, deleting, adding, appending, writting
> and so on with them. I look in SBE but I didn't find a chapter about that.
>
> Is somewhere documentation about this?
>
> thanks,
>
> Mariano
The built in File handling is not very elegent, enter, "Rio" File/Drectory

Installer squeaksource project: 'Rio'; install: 'File-Kernel'; install:
'File-Base'.

(and File-Tests for examples)

see also http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/5929

if you like it, then perhaps you would be kind enough to offer some feedback

best regards

Keith

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Class comment from File reads:

Features of File/Directory (née Rio)

File/Directory was inspired by ruby's rio which enables local and remote
files to be used transparently. To achieve this a generic stream copy
function has been developed (aStream copyTo: bStream) and we are able to
expose the working stream of FtpClient so you can stream directly to a
remote file. We also support file archives (zip) as if they were a
filesystem, and transparent streaming to compressed files (gzip).
[transparent streaming to a remote compressed file is still available as
a exercise for the reader to implement ;) ]

File/Directory is a standalone package, it does not use any of the
existing FileDirectory classes. It is separated into File-Kernel and
File-Base, where the former provides a minimal working subset for
KernelImages to access local filesystems.

Local file copying is handled by the fileCopyPlugin if it is present, if
not OSProcess 'cp' is used, and as a last resort a full stream to stream
copyTo: is performed (but this does update modification time).

Remote file upload or download is handled by OSProcess 'ftp' if it is
present. Multiple file transfers are invoked N at a time (where N is
initially 5). Copying from a remote file to another remote file is
handled by the internal stream copy function.