Author: David Blackman
Date: 18:19:22 03/19/01
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On March 19, 2001 at 04:48:54, David Rasmussen wrote: >Hello there. > >I'm adding opening book support to my engine, but I've got a problem with >figuring out a good portable book format. I have to be able to store binary >data, such as a 64-bit hashkey, and I can't see any other way to do this in a >portable way, than storing one byte at a time in the file, since I don't know >how ints and other types are represented on various platforms. If you want to be portable that's probably the only way. I can't see anything wrong with this. Accessing the disc should be a lot slower than packing and unpacking bytes, so performance won't hurt. It's not exactly hard to implement either.
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