A bit of binary I/O

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Heinz" <billgates at microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> Wow, that covers all, thanks for your reply.
>
> But, can i still write an entire structure with writeExact()? or you 
> suggest writting each member of the structure with write()?

Yeah, that's perfectly fine as long as the structure doesn't contain any 
reference members (pointers, class references, dynamic arrays).  Binary 
files a lot of times have some kind of standard header which can be written 
or read in one big chunk, which is possible to do with a structure.

But if the structure contains any reference members, writing it out with 
writeExact will not work, and you'll have to write out the members manually.