Re: writing to binary files

[Merick <Merick_TeVaran@...>]

Jerome Vuarand wrote:
> 2008/4/19, Merick <Merick_TeVaran@comcast.net>:
>   
> > Alright, making some progress here. I've tested the patched dll that Shmuel
> > sent me and I've been able to get FB to correctly read most of the data
> > written with this, but I'm still having trouble with longints. Using this:
> >
> >  a = struct.pack("l",-1)
> >  print(table.concat({string.byte(a,1,#a)}," "))
> >
> >  the output I get is 255 255 255 255, is this the correct output for this?
> >     
>
> As KHMan said, it is correct. What did you expect ?
>
>   
In freebasic a longint is  a signed 64 bit integer