2.4.6.1. - Binary Input/Output
The facility for binary file input and output allows users and sites to create arbitrary binary file formats for writing and reading spec data arrays. C source code for a number of formats is included in the spec distribution.
fmt_read(file, fmt, arr [, header [, flags ]])
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fmt_write(file, fmt, arr [, header [, flags ]])
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fmt_close(file, fmt)
In these functions
file
is the name of the data file,
fmt
selects which format to use and
arr
is the data array.
The optional
header
argument is an associative array that may containing identifying
information to be saved with the binary values in the data array.
The optional
flags
argument is reserved for future enhancements.
data_pipe("?")
data_pipe(program, "kill")
program
.