From: sar AT maties DOT sun DOT ac DOT za
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Subject: Inquiry - file insides
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 04:31:39 -0700
Organization: University of Potchefstroom
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I recently saved my first file with DJGPP, as a binary type file.
(I'm a green newbie.)
Before my epiphany with DJGPP, I muddled along in TP6. When you defined
a file as type byte or word in Pascal, and examined the file produced,
it had all these strange ASCII symbols in it (type filename.ext).
However, DJGPP seems to save the actual values in its binary files (if
you write "27" you get "27" in the file, not the ASCII table entry for
decimal 27.)
Why is this? Can it cause problems if for instance you write a file with
DJ, but want to read it in Pascal?

Any reply will be appreciated!

Rylan