[PD] Reading and writing binary files

[David]

Switching off the machine seems a little extreme to me! :)

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:36 AM, Martin Peach
<martin.peach at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On 2011-02-27 20:51, David wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your help. It took me a while to figure out how 'list
>> append' works, but I finally managed to get it working. I've attached
>> the patch (intended to be used as an abstraction, invoked from another
>> patch, which returns the data read from the file in a list).
>>
>> I have another question, though. How do the files get closed? When you
>> exit PureData? Does that mean that every time you open a file, another
>> system file handle is used and not released until you exit PureData?
>> Or is there some way to explicitly close the file and release the file
>> handle, buffers, etc.?
>
>
> Actually read or write messages close the file right away, the buffer
> remains at least big enough to fit the largest file read or constructed in
> the buffer. If you want to clear the space you could read a zero-length file
> into the buffer, or delete the [binfile], or close the patch, or exit Pd, or
> switch off the machine...
>
> Martin
>
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