d.io.filestreams.binary"></a>Binary Input and Output</h3></div></div></div><p>
    </p><p>The first and most important thing to remember about binary I/O is
      that opening a file with <code class="code">ios::binary</code> is not, repeat
      <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span>, the only thing you have to do.  It is not a silver
      bullet, and will not allow you to use the <code class="code">&lt;&lt;/&gt;&gt;</code>
      operators of the normal fstreams to do binary I/O.
   </p><p>Sorry.  The