Data.ByteString candidate 3

[Ashley Yakeley]

Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:

> Ok, here's what I've done:
>     http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/fps/new/

> The code has been partioned into:
>     Data.ByteString         a Word8 only layer. All functions are in terms of Word8

Do the file-handling Word8 functions always work correctly, or do they 
do some kind of round-trip Char conversion? We've needed Word8 file 
access, so this would be very helpful. For instance:

  writeFile "myfile" (pack [0..255])

This should always write exactly the bytes 0 to 255, with no 
text-related weirdness such as charset remapping or newline conversion.

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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA
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