At 2002-08-07 21:26, Ken Shan wrote: >One thing I am concerned about is that getChar should be IO CChar, not >IO Char. No, it should be IO Word8, because strictly speaking a C char doesn't have to be an octet. CChar should be the machine-dependent type. Network handles should certainly be octets. And I think we can assume file handles are too... -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA