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Re: help with streams please (APOLOGY/CORRECTION)

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From: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 21:21
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In article <1992Oct9.230027.1638@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com writes:
 
In article <4ep3D7i00iUxE1J0Yj@andrew.cmu.edu> js3b+@andrew.cmu.edu (James Vincent Schultz) writes:
>
>>I'm just starting out as a NeXT programmer, so please forgive me if I'm
>>missing something obvious.
>>
>>I'd like to use the NXReadTypes & NXWriteTypes functions to temporarily store
>>some instance variables in memory.  I looked in NeXT Concepts and the
>>NeXTStep Reference to come up with the idea of opening a memory stream,
>>converting that to a typed stream, and passing that to my object.
>>
>>This is great except that you have to open a stream NX_READONLY or
>>NX_WRITEONLY.  I can't figure out how to do both.  I want to write to a
>>stream, then come back a while later and read the values back.
>>
>>How can I read & write a stream?

>  NX_READWRITE
>  
>  andrew

Correction:  The docs explicitly state that you should NOT open *NXTypedStreams* as NX_READWRITE.  NXStreams are O.K.  Sorry for getting confused there.

Thanks to Greg Anderson for slapping me upside the head on that one...  :-)


andrew
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Subject: Re: help with streams please (APOLOGY/CORRECTION)
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