From: Bill Guindon <agorilla@...>
Date: 2004-09-19T13:05:38+09:00
Subject: Re: bug bytes

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 12:45:56 +0900, Markus <markus@reality.com> wrote:
> Bill --
> 
>      In addition to the code for hex dumping you just posted (which I
> gather is working as you'd like it to) could you post the code that
> _isn't_ working the way you want?  Specifically, it might be instructive
> to see how the file is opened, set to binmode, written to, reread, and
> dumped, since any of these may be the source of the problem.
> 
>      Also:
> 
>       * Are you setting "$\"?
>       * Are you using print (not puts)?
>       * Have you tried using syswrite instead (if you try it, be sure to
>         change _all_ writes to the file, since (IIRC) it is unbuffered).
>       * Have you tried using write?
> 
>         -- Markus

Turns out I was wrong... it lacked the (very important for Win) .binmode
Seems I lost it while refactoring, when added back, one of my many
test files had the correct field specs, and was able to save data.

My apologies for the false alarm -- but I'm still hating the 'pack'
statement, so I refuse to apologise to it ;)

-- 
Bill Guindon (aka aGorilla)