GHC uses its own version of the NHC library. It's linked off of the libraries page: http://www.pms.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/mitarbeiter/panne/haskell_libs /Binary.html Moreover, I have my own version of this library which we were, for a while, trying to synch with the NHC library so it could become standard. This is available at: http://www.isi.edu/~hdaume/haskell/NewBinary/ and allows both bit-based and byte-based writing styles. -- Hal Daume III | hdaume@isi.edu "Arrest this man, he talks in maths." | www.isi.edu/~hdaume

-----Original Message----- From: haskell-admin@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-admin@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Christian Maeder Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 1:34 AM To: The Haskell Mailing List Subject: Re: Reading/Writing Binary Data in Haskell

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There isn't a standard mechanism for binary I/O.

NHC98 contains the York Binary library. Can someone tell me if this is available for other Haskell systems? And didn't GHC also provide binary I/O?

How does the GHC itself read/write binary data, since the interface files (*.hi) produced by GHC are in a binary format? (Whereas NHC98 *.hi are text files.)

Christian

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