[Issue migrated from SourceForge | ID: 3470125 | Submitted by 'jamshark70']
[http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=3470125]

In UNIX-based systems, getInt8 and getInt16 methods of File (implemented in UnixFILE) return signed integers. In Windows, the same methods return unsigned. This breaks code libraries (for example, SimpleMIDIFile in wslib) that expect signed integers.

The primitive should be fixed so that the behavior in Windows is consistent with Linux/osx.

p = PathName.tmp +/+ "onechar.txt";
f = File(p, "w");
f.putInt8(255);
f.close;

f = File(p, "r");
f.getInt8.postln; // should print -1 on all platforms
f.close;