Writing to and from a binary file?

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Keith,

This is standard stuff.

on example
  answer file "Select a binary file..."
  if it is not empty then
    put it into myFile
    open file myFile for binary read
    read from file myFile until EOF
    put it into myData
    close file myFile
    // do something with the data below this line
  end if
end example

Instead of open, read, close you can also use:

  put url ("binfile:" & myFile) into myData

Open/read/close gives you more control, but put url seems more straightforward (and less lines)

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On 23 jul 2011, at 00:17, Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab) wrote:

> Thanks Mark. Would you happen to know of any examples out there especially for binary files?