--          This file is part of SmallEiffel The GNU Eiffel Compiler.
--          Copyright (C) 1994-98 LORIA - UHP - CRIN - INRIA - FRANCE
--            Dominique COLNET and Suzanne COLLIN - colnet@loria.fr 
--                       http://www.loria.fr/SmallEiffel
-- SmallEiffel is  free  software;  you can  redistribute it and/or modify it 
-- under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
-- Software  Foundation;  either  version  2, or (at your option)  any  later 
-- version. SmallEiffel is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,but
-- WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
-- or  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.   See the GNU General Public License 
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-- write to the  Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
-- Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
--
class BINARY_FILE_WRITE

creation make

feature

   path: STRING;

feature {NONE}

   output_stream: POINTER;

feature 

   make is
      do
      end;

feature

   connect_to(new_path: STRING) is
      require
	 not is_connected;
	 not new_path.empty
      do
	 output_stream := bfw_open(new_path.count,new_path.to_external);
	 if output_stream.is_not_void then
	    path := new_path;
	 end;
      end;

   is_connected: BOOLEAN is
      do
	 Result := path /= Void;
      end;

   put_byte(byte: CHARACTER) is
      require
	 is_connected
      do
	 c_inline_c("fputc(b1,C1->_output_stream);");
      end;

   disconnect is
      require
	 is_connected
      do
	 c_inline_c("fclose(C->_output_stream);"); 
	 path := Void;
      end;

feature {NONE}

   bfw_open(path_count: INTEGER; path_pointer: POINTER): POINTER is
      do
	 c_inline_c("R=fopen(a2,%"wb%");");
      end;

end -- BINARY_FILE_WRITE