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Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used

From	"Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam>
Newsgroups	microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript
Subject	Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used
Date	2019-09-19 09:29 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote

|
| > Yes, I did. With that 256 bytes binary file.
|
| Odd that it works for you ...  The only difference I can think of is that 
I
| tried to write & read widestring files.
|

  It gets even more weird. First I should say that I'm
almost never dealing with unicode in these cases. I'm
assuming we're talking about "binary" files treated as
ANSI text.

  If I open, read and write to disk JJ's short sample file,
even with a couple of extra nulls added in the middle,
it works. And Len shows the full length of the file after
reading it in, but Left(s1, 100) shows nothing.

  If I do the exact same thing with a small GIF file I
get an invalid operation error when I try to write it back
to disk as a new file. But if I do it my way,
getting the length of file and doing a TS.Read(filelen)
then it works fine to write it back to disk. In both cases
wscript tells me the string I read in is length 13,297.
But the string acquired via ReadAll doesn't work.

  I got curious about how much ADODB can do and
found another glitch: ADODB was removed on Server
2003. I don't know why. Security? But so far I haven't
found a way to use that to bypass FSO.

  If I read in a GIF with ADODB it only allows me to
read it in binary. It seems to be sniffing the file. Weird.
If I set it to text I get an error "Operation not allowed in
this context."
   If I read it in as binary then MSXML can't convert it
to Base-64. I'm finding MSXML very opaque to work with.
The method for doing a Base-64 conversion is bizarre.
Just assign the data type and insert a string and, presto,
like a magician it does the conversion, despite no explicit
call to a conversion method. That appears to be some kind
of bug-based hack that someone discovered along the way.

  It looks like MSXML can do a lot of handy things but
the docs and the object model are pretty much inpenetrable
to me. And since it's mainly for handling XML, which I
have no use for, I'm not inspired to dig out these useful
nuggets, like implicit data transformation.

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ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-09-16 08:23 +0700
  Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-15 23:03 -0400
    Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2019-09-15 23:58 -0400
      Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-16 10:08 -0400
        Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2019-09-16 12:32 -0400
          Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-16 13:13 -0400
            Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2019-09-16 20:26 -0400
              Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-16 22:08 -0400
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2019-09-17 22:08 -0400
    Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-09-16 18:27 +0700
      Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-16 09:55 -0400
        Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-16 10:32 -0400
        Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-09-17 20:15 +0700
          Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-17 10:04 -0400
          Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-17 23:04 -0400
            Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-09-18 16:17 +0700
              Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-18 10:12 -0400
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-09-19 21:23 +0700
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-19 11:47 -0400
            Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-09-18 11:30 +0200
              Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-09-18 17:43 +0700
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-18 10:16 -0400
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-09-18 16:49 +0200
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-19 09:29 -0400
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-09-19 20:10 +0200
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-09-20 08:04 +0200
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-09-20 16:06 +0700
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-09-22 12:15 +0200
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-22 09:38 -0400
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-09-22 16:49 +0200
  Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-16 15:58 -0400
  Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used Schmidt <ng@vbRichClient.com> - 2019-09-20 21:44 +0200
    Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-20 17:11 -0400
      Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used Schmidt <ng@vbRichClient.com> - 2019-09-21 00:18 +0200
        Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-20 21:26 -0400
        Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-20 23:50 -0400
          Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used Schmidt <ng@vbRichClient.com> - 2019-09-22 16:32 +0200
            Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-22 12:45 -0400
              Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used Schmidt <ng@vbRichClient.com> - 2019-09-22 19:41 +0200
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-22 14:10 -0400
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used Schmidt <ng@vbRichClient.com> - 2019-09-22 20:46 +0200
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-22 15:09 -0400
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used Schmidt <ng@vbRichClient.com> - 2019-09-22 22:30 +0200
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-22 15:10 -0400
                Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used Schmidt <ng@vbRichClient.com> - 2019-09-22 22:32 +0200
            Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-09-22 13:45 -0400
    Re: ADODB.Stream binary array to binary string failed unless x-user-defined is used JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2019-09-22 02:07 +0700

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