I have a file in xdr format and I'm trying to use the xdr module from dub.
After a lot of failures, I got this to work:

    ubyte[] b2 = cast (ubyte[]) read(fname);
    string n = cast (string) b2.get!string();
    tracef("<%s>", n);

I feel like there should be a way for the xdr get to read directly from the file rather than reading it all into a buffer first, but no combination of File f = File(fname, "r"); and get  that I tried would compile.

Also is using cast like this good practice?

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Chris