Bradd W. Szonye wrote:

> Per Bothner wrote:
>
>>Well, yes.  The points I'm making are:
>>* One layers text i/o on top of binary i/o.
>
>
> Not in general. That's the easiest way to do it on the "all files are
> streams of bytes" used by Unix and Windows, but those aren't the only
> operating systems in the worlds. Many systems still use record-based
> files and other oddities where you usually implement "binary" I/O on top
> of the text or record interface to create the illusion of a byte stream.

You'd still not layer binary i/o on top of text i/o.   You can layer
binary i/o on top of record i/o.
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