G'Day Keith,
 
-=> Quoting Keith Fowler to Frank Adam <=-

Did i reply to this yet ? I'm so confused :)

 KF> Yeah, i was just outlining what command i used :-)
There is no need to do that , it just confuses things.
 
 KF> Actually, it did work with just byte firstname; dunno how though
I'd say just lucky, but remember that the area past that byte is not 
allocated, so some other part of the program could come along and 
over-write it, and that'll lead to some interesting results. 

 KF> Thanks.. When opening a file with "wb", how come when i print a
 KF> normal  string to it ( strcpy(name,"Keith") ) it prints
it to the file
 KF> in text mode??, do you need a special string or something??..
Nah, it's because you do print a text string, try fwrite() with a number as 
Paul suggested and you won't be able to actually read the number, but you 
will be able to open it as text within Xtree. 
I reckon Xtree looks at the header of the file and if it's an executable it 
won't let you edit in textmode for safety reasons.
Dos' Edit will happily read in an exe and edit it(quite stupid really).


  L8r Frank (fadam{at}ozemail.com.au).
                                                            
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