Re: FILE* interface to NSString or NSData?

[Michael Hopkins]

On 19/3/07 20:33, "Fred Kiefer" <address@hidden> wrote:

> The class you are asking for is NSStream plus its subclasses
> NSInputStream and NSOutputStream.
>
>
> Michael Hopkins wrote:
> > 
> > We want to convert a C library that reads from and writes to binary 
> > FILE* descriptors using fread() & fwrite() to do the same thing but 
> > accessing e.g. NSString or NSData objects instead.
> > 
> > Is there some accepted (cross-platform safe) way of doing this using
> > Foundation/GNUstep-base?  We have the whole compatible subset of 
> > Cocoa Foundation and GNUstep-base available if a solution needs other 
> > classes to be involved.


Thanks a lot Fred

NSInputStream was perfect for reading and I used [NSMutableData appendBytes: length: ] for the output.

Michael


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