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Re: Option Characters to binary

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Subject: Re: Option Characters to binary
From: Will Leshner <leshner at ljug dot com>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 19:50:37 -0800
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On Nov 19, 2003, at 2:06 PM, Christopher Morrill 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.

This may be considered a "feature," not a bug. To me, however, the whole point of a binary file is to store data in the form we choose -- not "converted" as somebody else sees fit.


I write binary strings out all the time and I have never seen any corruption or translation. Could you post an example of what you mean?



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