"Tim Attwood" <tim### [at] anti-spamcomcastnet> wrote:
> It would be easy enough to fit binary file access into the current SDL
> framework.
>
> FOPEN_DIRECTIVE:
>     #fopen IDENTIFIER "filename" OPEN_TYPE [FILE_MODE]
> OPEN_TYPE:
>     read | write | append
> FILE_MODE
>     standard | binary

That alone wouldn't quite do the job: How is POV to know whether to write a
particular value as a byte, 16-bit or 32-bit integer?

So when invoking #write, the parameters would have to be marked accordingly
anyway; and in that case the FILE_MODE isn't required at all.

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