Re: Option Characters to binary

[Mars Saxman <mars at realsoftware dot com>]

morrill at pacbell dot net wrote:

> Evidently RB cannot write strings as pure binary data.  It insists on
> performing some kind of text conversion -- even when writing to a binary file.

The BinaryStream writes the bytes to disk exactly as you provide them. If
the values showing up in the destination file are not the values you expect,
then the string you are providing must not contain the data you think it
does.

Mars Saxman
REAL Software


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