##### File system basics

I/O Lib

Text and binary file essential I/O

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Reading and writing text files using line-oriented functions is a common need.
Handling block transfers of binary data is necessary for packed data formats.

Performing basic filesystem operations complements these two.

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The TextReader class has a UTF-8 aware getline method for parsing a text file
one line at a time.

The TextWriter class has putline and puts methods to serialize to a text file.

The lower level BinaryReader reads a block of 8192 bytes, advancing the buffer
pointer with each read.

The BinaryWriter class has methods for writing Strings, Buffers, 4-bytes,
2-bytes, and 1-byte .

The Pfile class has methods for checking if a file exists; if it's a directory
or a symlink; if it's readable, writable, executable; and for assembling and
accessing parts of a file's path, basename, and extension.

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The iolib library may be installed directly from github or via
NPM.

``bash
[user@host]# npm install iolib
`

Sample usage of the libary in a node.js project:

`javascript
import {TextReader} from 'iolib';
import {TextWriter} from 'iolib';
import {BinaryReader} from 'iolib';
import {BinaryWriter} from 'iolib';
import {Pfile} from 'iolib';
``

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#### Dependencies

This library depends on softlib
, which should be installed side-by-side.

#### Module exports

#### Suitability

#### Availability

	Documentation	Read Write Hub
	Source code	github
	Package installation	npm

#### License

The iolib library is licensed under the MIT License.