Re: writing to binary files

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

Merick wrote:
> 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

No problem, just do some minor impedance matching. One little
problem... 64 bit doubles as Lua numbers cannot handle 64 bit
ints. Does the module has support for 64-bit ints?

-- 
Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia