Re: Reading & Writing in a Stream

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From: Jon Skeet [C# MVP] (skeet_at_pobox.com)
Date: 03/07/04 

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 19:22:32 -0000

Cor <non@non.com> wrote:
> > Your post gave the impression (to me at least) that you thought you
> > could write strings directly to a stream, which you can't.
>
> Did you see me write here that I thought that you said that it was only
> possible to write bytearrays to disk?

No, I didn't - but that's basically true. Of course, you can *convert*
strings to byte arrays using StreamWriter, but it's still going to
write bytes to disk, one way or other.
 
> That I could have been writing very easy by what you where telling and than
> telling to you that you can only write bytes to a disk.

Sorry, could you rephrase that? I didn't understand that sentence.

I still say it's irrelevant whether or not the OP's stream is writing
to disk though. 

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