You can use FileIO xtra if you write your data one byte at a time.
Slow, but it works.
director-online has two very good articles on this.
Reading Binary Files with FileIO
http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=1087
Writing Binary Files with FileIO
http://www.director-online.com/accessArticle.cfm?id=1089
just be careful with '0' characters :-)
hth
Fraser
Thanks soooo much for this link. Just what I always wanted.
-A.
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