How can i write code to file in bit order or runlength code
Eg 001 + 01001 + 010011000 + 011101
how to write it in to file

Bit streams?

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink

I don't know what they call. but it must merge variable length code to
hex and write onn file  0010000+00001 = 0010 0000 0001 = 201 H

You could certainly create a TBitStream class that would allow this kind
of writing ... if I kinda sound distracted it must be because I'm
writing it in my head while writing this -- as many of you are probably
doing yourself while reading this.

[I envision the constructor of such an object taking a stream as one of
its parameters.]

Basically, your "position" in a bit-stream would be calculated in terms
of bits not bytes, and what this means is simply that the rightmost
three bits of the position ("position and $07") represent a bit-shift
and the remaining 29 bits ("position shr 3") represent the location of
the starting byte in question.

Then, when reading and writing bytes, you're doing a lot of bit-shifting
and ANDing with a mask and ORing the new values into place.  It depends
on how fancy and generic you need the routines to be.

PKZIP and other compress/enciphering routines commonly use such
algorithms because a PKZIP-compressed file is in fact a bitstream not a
bytestream.  You might be able to "lift" the routines from there.

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