e layer that is
	  responsible for actual I/O.  If you want to use the C++
	  library for binary I/O, this is where you start.
	</p></li></ul></div><p>How to go about using streambufs is a bit beyond the scope of this
      document (at least for now), but while streambufs go a long way,
      they still leave a couple of things up to you, the programmer.
      As an example, byte ordering is completely between you and the
      operating system, and you have to handle it yourself.
   </p><p>Deriving a stre