16 bit numbers?

[John Rule]

I've played around with converting a 16 bit integer to binary (and back)
using the combination of numToChar() and binaryEncode(), and I have come to
the conclusion that I cannot 'directly' do this with numToChar()...which is
limited to 8 bits (binaryEncode seems to NOT have this limitation). Has
anyone else found a solution to this?

It's probably something really simple...I'm just Rev'd out!

Thanks,
JR