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Re: Write Binary

• Posted by mountains at MINDSPRING.COM Jun 03, 1998
• 807 views

At 05:33 PM 6/3/98 -0400, you wrote:
>        I thought I read that opening a file as "wb" would permit writing
>any object, even though complicated, in one command such as :
>
>integer fnOut
>fnOut = open("file.out", "wb")
>put(fnOut, o)           or
>write(fnOut, o)         or some such.
>
>        Now that I want to do it, I haven't found the right command. Is
>there a way?
>            Thanks for your help, Art Adamson
>
>
>
>Arthur P. Adamson, The Engine Man, euclid at isoc.net
>

Write Binary just sends 8bit values out (0..255decimal)
while the other write modes add c/r codes, and interpret
control-z to indicate end-of-file.
If you're writing stuff that might have a control-z
(Ascii 26) imbedded in it, you have to use binary writes.

Hope I'm right about that.

Irv