Instead of trying to deal with a count of objects, just give 'em a stream of
bytes. This is WAY simpler to work with at the implementation level, and
removes confusion about what to do with a partial read.
This will be very useful when we expose the i/o interface to applications.
This is with the build environment and latest GCC builds available from...
http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/
...this is apparently what Mozilla uses for Firefox builds on OS/2.