Re: Hex Hassle Please Please Help!

[Jack Romanowicz <jroman@getnet.com>]

Richard,

You must open your file in BINARY mode.  The flag value you use depends on which
kind of file object you are using.  In the DOS/WINDOWS world, the default file
mode is TEXT, which assumes a value of  0xA is a line feed and automatically
adds an 0xD (carriage return).  This is a holdover from the days when output was
done on teletype (TTY) devices.  On those devices, a line feed did only that --
moved the print head to the next line, in the same character position.  It was
necessary to send a carriage return to move the print head to the beginning of
the line.

Jack Romanowicz