Re: Juggling with binary files?

Paolo Amoroso <amoroso@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Practical: Parsing Binary Files
(chapter 24 of Peter Seibel's book "Practical Common Lisp";
source code available at the book site)
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-parsing-binary-files.html

BINARY-TYPES
www.cl-user.net/asp/libs/binary-types

I think it would be appropriate to proclaim that my "binary-types"
package should be considered superseded by Peter's package, which
looks to be much nicer code (not to mention the documentation!).

--
Frode Vatvedt Fjeld
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