stream converting

From: Moritz Tacke (take_at_informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: 31 Oct 2003 08:02:23 -0800

Hi there!

I have a problem concerning the file input to a c++ program: the
expected input is either in binary or in some kind of text format;
what I finally want is the binary version.
I know how to translate between these two versions and would like to
write some kind of wrapper. This wrapper should open the text file and
provide an istream which behaves exactly like the ifstream of an
equivalent binary file would. Is there a smart way to do this?
Greetings,
 Moritz