Richard Hadsell wrote:
myself, but one of my colleagues tried to use it for binary files. He found it very difficult (or impossible) to use the insertion and extraction operators to handle binary format. I don't know how he solved the problem, but I will suggest that he look at a new binary_iostreams library, if it is ever accepted and released.
The binary_iostreams library does not try to modify the traditional iostreams classes, because this is indeed very difficult or impossible. The binary_iostreams library is a new hierarchy of classes developed to be very similar to the iostreams hierarchy. The actual implementation is quite simple. Best regards, -- Ares Lagae Computer Graphics Research Group, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~ares/