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From: rmartin@clear.com (Bob Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: I/O problem
Keywords: C++ I/O binary
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.142845.16200@clear.com>
Date: 9 Nov 90 14:28:45 GMT
References: <1179@appli.se> <58846@microsoft.UUCP>
Organization: Clear Communications, Inc.
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>In article <1179@appli.se> niklas@appli.se (Niklas Hallqvist) writes:
>|	Is there a way to do portable binary I/O on classes with virtual
>|functions? 

Are you aware of the Object Oriented Data Base Management Systems
(OODBMS) that are on the Market?  These packages do what you are
asking about, including the swizzling of the pointers.  They
are very very slick!

Check into Object Design, Versant, and Ontologic.  These companies
produce OODBMSs for C++.
									
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