terpret the data into
      text characters, and that's exactly what you don't want to happen
      during binary I/O.
   </p><p>Third, using the <code class="code">get()</code> and <code class="code">put()/write()</code> member
      functions still aren't guaranteed to help you.  These are
      "unformatted" I/O functions, but still character-based.
      (This may or may not be what you want, see below.)
   </p><p>Notice how all the problems here are due to the inappropriate use
      of <span class="em