Re: [boost] Re: extending boost::io

From: Israel Fdez. Cabrera (israel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-13 14:35:11

Jonathan Turkanis wrote:

>>I'm
>>working too adding support to OLE Compound Documents to the same
>>library, I'd like to "extract" a containt
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>contained?
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Yes :) my spelling is not good, sorry!

>>OLE Document using boost::io
>>stream interface.
>>The problem is I'm not sure how to "return or extract" more than one
>>document or compressed file from a stream.
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>If I understand you correctly, with the current library you need to use the COM
>interface to get an instance of IStream which can then be easily wrapped as a
>seekable resource.
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COM? I need my work to compile in POSIX OSs, like Linux, etc and Windows 
too. More details will be appreciated?

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>>All boost examples
>>boost::io::copy() a whole stream to another but not just part of it.
>>I'll appreciate any help, best regards and thank you for such a helpful
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>I wrote another library with direct support for hierarchical filesystems such as
>zip files or OLE Compound Documents. A modified version might be a candidate for
>includion in Boost at some future date. I haven't looked at it in a while, but I
>believe it supported the following usage:
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How can I take a look to this library? any link to dowload will be great!

>>Israel
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>Jonathan
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best reg_at_rds
Israel