John Meacham wrote:

I wrote up a proposal for a binary file IO mechanism to be added as a 'blessed addendum' to the standard at best and as a commonly implmented extension (in hslibs) at least..

I have looked at your proposal. If you would like it to be widely available, you will need to write an implementation of the library, or find someone who can write it for you. Type signatures are great as documentation, but they are not directly executable. :-) Regards, Malcolm