From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2011-04-23T03:49:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Binary file: SAT

Alessandro Barracco wrote in post #994473:
>> Do not think of binary files as containing lines.  A binary file is a
>> long continuous sequence of integers contained in a varying number of
>> bytes.
>
> That's OK. but the file I need to parse is a special txt file (DXF
> format) that consist of couple-of-line:

Binary files do not have lines.  Until you can understand that, you 
cannot proceed.  Binary files consist of blocks of bytes.  Each block 
contains some data.  Each block consists of a different number of bytes.

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