reading a structure (eg header info) from file

[bearophile]

captaindet:

> as for the
> endianness, as i can oversee it now all potential users will sit
> on little-endian machines. the group of users is small, just our
> workgroup.

If you are able to put a tag in your file that specifies the 
endianess, using Phobos it's not hard to convert the data to the 
right endianess of the CPU where the D code is running.

Bye,
bearophile