Re: Binary IO

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 10:32:59AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:

In GHC, you can assume that

hGetByte h = do c <- hGetChar h; return (fromIntegral (ord c))

you must open the file in binary mode (openBinaryFile). I don't think this works with Hugs, though.

It does, provided the file was opened in binary mode.