Hello, I am quite interested in having better Binary support in Haskell -- especially support for reading and writing binary files and protocols that have fields smaller than 8-bits and non-byte alignment. As a first step, I have republished Hal Daume III's NewBinary package in hopes that it will inspire some forward movement on it. I have made the following 'improvements': ~ ghc6ized cd /tmp/NewBinary/ diff /tmp/Binary.hs /tmp/NewBinary/NewBinary/Binary.hs 81c81,82 < import GHC.Handle ( openFileEx, IOModeEx(..) ) ---

import GHC.Handle import IOExts ( openFileEx, IOModeEx(..) )

(hrm, I probably don't need to import GHC.Handle anymore either...) ~ cabalized To build, you need the Cabal libraries installed. Then do something like this: ghc -package Setup.lhs -o setup ./setup configure ./setup build ./setup install ./setup register (? maybe not needed ?) ~ debianized You should be able to build and install it like any other debian package: dpkg-buildpackage && debi ~ darcsized darcs get http://www.n-heptane.com/nhlab/repos/NewBinary I hope I am not stepping on anyone's toes or duplicating efforts. Jeremy Shaw. ps. The original is available at: http://www.isi.edu/~hdaume/haskell/NewBinary/ -- This message contains information which may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. If you have received the message in error, please advise the sender and delete the message. Thank you.