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From: winfave@dutrun.UUCP (Alexander Verbraeck)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: I/O with complex datastructures
Keywords: I/O datastructures save
Message-ID: <1863@dutrun.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 90 11:19:41 GMT
References: <140232@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: winfave@dutrun.UUCP (A.Verbraeck)
Organization: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
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The solution has already been pointed out: create a file of the type
of your datastructure, open it, write your data, and close it. Very
easy indeed.

You asked about disadvantages: yes, there is at least one: if you use
pointers in your datastructure, you can't retrieve them, because you
never know whether your data will be loaded into the same memory
addresses. If you're not using pointers, the above method works just
fine.

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Alexander Verbraeck                  e-mail: winfave@dutrun.tudelft.nl
Delft University of Technology               winfave@hdetud1.bitnet
Department of Information Systems            winfave@dutrun.uucp
PO Box 356, 2600 AJ  The Netherlands         dutrun!winfave@hp4nl.uucp
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