Anyway, the previous message is interesting and I thought folks here may find 
it useful.
However, it still didn't exactly address my original question.  Well, maybe 
it did.  However, "I'm not sure that you understand that what I said was not 
what I meant."  (I can't remember who said that....)
Anyway...
What I would like to be able to do is to establish some sort of a "sliding 
offset" to store and retrieve 7 bit data (and single bit data) on disk.  Such 
that the first 7 bits of the file would be the first character, the next 7 
bits would be the next character, the next single bit would be a yes/no or 
whatever, and so forth and so on.  However, as I stated earlier, I just can't 
seem to get my mind around this problem.
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