Reading Binary Data in Little Endian Format

[Dave]

On 8 Jan 2008, at 13:53, Mark Smith wrote:

>
> On 8 Jan 2008, at 13:35, Dave wrote:
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>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> Great! Thanks a lot. I think it would be good to have an Endian  
>> Converter built into RunRev - would save a lot of mucking about.
>
> Well, the binary decode functions do cover quite a lot of it, but  
> there are gaps - one of the reasons for writing the library!
>
>
>>
>> One more thing (isn't there always?!). Is there anyway to read  
>> back the current position of the file?
>
> I don't think there is currently a Revolution function for this. If  
> you're using 'read from', 'seek to' etc, you have to keep track of  
> the current position yourself at the moment. This might be a good  
> enhancement request.

Yes, usually there is a "tell" function that returns the current  
position or "seek" returns it after seeking so you just specify an  
offset of relative 0.

All the Best
Dave