Re: Writing binary files

[Kurt Jung <kurt.jung@...>]

Keith Pimmel wrote:

> I'm trying to take tabular data from an ascii file and convert it
> into a MATLAB *.mat file. The one thing that I'm really struggling
> with is forcing the binary write mode to fit in the bytes.

Luiz Henrique has written a library which I believe does what you want.
See

  http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/lpack.tar.gz

The use of the io.open mode 'wb' is correct for your Windows
application, but only to prevent bytes that happen to be newlines from
being augmented with carriage returns.

--
Kurt Jung