[Haskell-cafe] Basic Binary IO

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

nuno:
> 
>    Hi all!
> 
>    Today i was reading System.IO and didn't manage to
>    understand how it works just by reading it.
>    I looked the internet for some help on this, but only
>    "advanced" information is available.
>    Can anyone show me how to use openBinaryFile ?
>    Just an example, like opening file "somefile" and separating
>    it into something that can be edited in the code (like 8 bit
>    words) then go to word nr12 and edit the last bit?

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Binary_IO

For flat lists of bytes, use Data.ByteString, for structured data, try
NewBinary.

There are other options too, documented above.

openBinaryFile just sets the line ending handling on windows. I don't
think it does what you think it does.

-- Don