Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 09:38:30 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Thore Herberg <thore AT ts DOT go DOT dlr DOT de>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: reading binary I/O with iostream
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On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Thore Herberg wrote:

> Is there a way to persuade "cin" and "cout" to read and write
> data in binary format (like fwrite and fread) ?

The type of the streams connected to the console is set before `main' is
called.  If you need to switch them to binary, you can use `setmode'
library function.  I don't know if this will work in C++, or whether 
there is a more C++-ish way of doing it.

Note that switching stdin to binary has some side effects for 
signal-handling mechanism (Ctrl-C doesn't casuse SIGINT when you switch 
file handle 0 to binary mode, unless you call `__djgpp_set_ctrl_c').