[PD] Feature request/external query (PDPEDIA)

[Martin Peach]

Thomas O Fredericks wrote:
>I am looking for a way of reading/writing strings (as defined by the
>string2any and any2string externals) to the hard disk.
>Is there already an implementation anywhere (maybe I will adapt textfile or
>msgfile)?
>The reason is I want to bypass the limitations imposed by pd's special
>characters so I can adapt pdmtl's help browser so it can automatically 
>parse
>it's help files and format them for the PDPEDIA wiki.

You could check out [binfile] in cvs externals/mrpeach/binfile. It works a 
bit like [texfile] but it can read and write arbitrary bytes.

Martin