What is a stream?

[YYZ]

Are there any articles on the net explaining what streams are, why they
exist at all, etc? I honestly don't know why these things aren't just
a part of a file object...

Matt

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Are there any articles on the net explaining what streams are, why they
exist at all, etc? I honestly don't know why these things aren't just
a part of a file object...

<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_(computer)>

 

[Guest]

Hi there,

Here are some articles that can hopefully help you to understand file streams:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ef/html/frlrfsystemiofilestreamclasstopic.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ef/html/frlrfSystemIOFileStreamClassTopic.asp

hope these can help!

 

[YYZ]

Wow -- thanks for the quick response.

Matt