binary file output

[help chris]

I'm having a little bit of trouble with writing data into a binary file. The following is my code:


Dim file as Integer
Open "tmp.bin" for binary as file
Put #file, , memBuf
Close file




the contents of memBuf are exactly how I want it to be. However, when I open up "tmp.bin" in a hex editor, there are 4 bytes of data at the beggining of the file, the second two bytes are the length of the entire file. I do not want those four bytes to be inserted. I assume it must be my use of the "Put" command, but I am not aware of any other command to write to a file. I would appriciate any pointers you all may have.

thanks

it appears you want to open the file tmp.bin and then enter the string memBUF into it...
why not try it this why?

FileNo = FreeFile
Open "tmp.bin" for binary as FileNo
Write #FileNo, memBuf
close FileNo

[help chris]

thanks for the reply. Using your method, it complained about opening the file as "binary" so I changed that back to "output". And using that it only inserted a single byte (always a quote - h22) at the beggining. So, while better then 4 bytes being inserted, still not good

Anyway, after poking around some more, I found the "Print" command. So, the following code worked:


Dim file as Integer
file = FreeFile
Open "tmp.bin" for Output as file
print #file, memBuf
Close file




Thanks for your response, got me on my way