Binary transput comments please

[chris hermansen]

Thanks Jose,

I finally feel like I'm making some progress forward as opposed to just
diving deeper.

Don't worry about getting back until it's comfortable.  I have lots more to
think about!

On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 9:43 AM Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch@gnu.org> wrote:

>
> Hi Chris.
>
> Just a heads up that I am not ignoring your emails.  I'm just very busy
> at this point and need to look at them carefully.
>
> Thanks for working on that! :)
>
>
> > Reading Lindsey's comments in AB42.4.4 I find myself a bit confused.  In
> §7
> > Binary transput he writes:
> >
> > If the book has random access, then the only way a user can find the
> > location of his data, for subsequent use of "set", is for him to enquire
> > about the "page number", "line number" and "char number" before he
> outputs
> > it.  The procedures "space", "newline" and "newpage" may on occasions be
> > useful for aligning data in convenient positions, but the fact that they
> > work at all for binary transput is probably more due to the fact that
> they
> > exist, than that they are useful.  This is probably why they are not
> > available for use with "put bin", "get bin", etc.
> >
> > I'm struggling to understand how "space" etc could work for binary
> transput
> > but not be available for use with "put bin" etc.
> >
> > Does anyone have any thoughts  about  that?
> >
> > And one other puzzle - should we continue to think of Book as having a
> > character row at its heart, given the need to support binary and
> character
> > moods through the same mode?  Might it not be better to think of Book as
> > treating with bytes and then either Channel or more probably File dealing
> > with character <-> byte conversions?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
>


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Chris Hermansen · clhermansen "at" gmail "dot" com

C'est ma façon de parler.
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