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- Date: Wednesday, 20 January 1993 21:58:52 MST
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- From: "D. C. Sessions" <dcs@witsend.tnet.com>
- Organization: Nobody but me -- really
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- Subject: Re: TEXT File Question
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
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- In <1jh4ksINN86m@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, jeb2@po.CWRU.Edu (Jared E. Bendis) wrote:
- # Anyway, I have been developing an image format for work and it is coming
- # along but to be more efficeint I wanted to store byte of hex data and not
- # char nd convert them, BUT the file buffer command only seemed to work
- # on TEXT files (makes sense considering it was the settextbuffer commnd)
- # Is the fastest way of accesssing Hard drive data uses text files or converting
- # or am I missing something.
-
- Check out the various Streams objects. They do untyped I/O
- in a much cleaner way than the untyped files.
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