FA> Nah, it's because you do print a text string, try fwrite() with a number as


    Thanks for ya info (some of ya lines got cut of in the quote), but, yep, 
that is the case with XTree Gold, i renamed a text file to .BIN and XTG 
wouldn't edit it :-).. But i have pretty much every thing under control now.
    Thanks for ya help

    Keith

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