URGENT: how do you read in a binary data file?

How do you read in a binary data file and save it into an array of records?

I have the basic code for opening a file for input

open "test.dat" for binary As #1

get #1, , EmpDB

get #1, , Current

get #1, , Counter

close #1


and


open "test.dat" for binary As #1

put #1, , EmpDB

put #1, , Current

put #1, , Counter

close #1


but every time I access it, the data that I saved is not there!

any help would be apprciated it!

Not sure if this is the answer, but I think you may need to get VB to allocate you a File number rather than giving it #1 Eg.

fin=freefile
open "test.dat" for binary as #fin




otherwise it does weird stuff.

Scott

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