Chapter

Buffered and Unbuffered

From ComputerScienceOne by Dr Chris Bourke

Concepts

1. How do buffered and unbuffered file input/output differ?

   "9.1.3. Buffered and Unbuffered When processing files the input/output may be either buffered or unbuffered. A buffered input or output “stream” is one in which data that is read/written is actually s

2. When should data be stored as binary or text files?

   "9.1.4. Binary vs Text Files As previously mentioned, files can be stored as pure binary data or as plaintext (ASCII). Depending on our application and the nature of the data being written to files, t