Object persistence?

["Shippy!" <shippy cs nmt edu>]

Does GTK provide any methods for persistence? I would
like to save data from widgets and linked-lists to a file,
but I would like to be able to just save the data to
a file in binary so the file is smaller and quicker to
save/load.

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| Jeff "Shippy" Shipman     E-Mail: shippy@cs.nmt.edu |
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| New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology       |
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