Re: Reading binary files to ascii - BOUNDARY.mcr (0/1)

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From: Bob Butler (tiredofit_at_nospam.com)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:42:55 -0800

"James Maeding" <jmaeding@nettaxi.com> wrote in message
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> I know this is not a new subject, but the past threads I found were
> deleted from the server! I have lots of files produced by a c
> programmer, the files are binary and contain ascii type data (not an
> image or something). Example file attached.
> I need to read the file in VB and save as ascii. Its the reading
> part that stumps me. There must be a component to do this.

Do you have any clue what the data is? I took a quick look and I'd guess
that it starts with 2 32-bit integers (5 and 8) and then the word "BOUNDARY"
and then a whole lot of other binary data that doesn't jump out immediately
as anything meaningful. If you have some clue what is being written it may
be possible to reverse-engineer the format. 

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