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Re: Binary file: SAT

From 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com>
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Subject Re: Binary file: SAT
Date 2011-04-22 13:49 -0500
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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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Binary file: SAT Alessandro Barracco <bomastudio@gmail.com> - 2011-04-20 17:00 -0500
  Re: Binary file: SAT 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-20 19:02 -0500
    Re: Binary file: SAT 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-20 19:45 -0500
      Re: Binary file: SAT Roger Braun <roger@rogerbraun.net> - 2011-04-20 21:53 -0500
        Re: Binary file: SAT Alessandro Barracco <bomastudio@gmail.com> - 2011-04-21 03:06 -0500
          Re: Binary file: SAT 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-21 12:25 -0500
            Re: Binary file: SAT Alessandro Barracco <bomastudio@gmail.com> - 2011-04-22 04:51 -0500
              Re: Binary file: SAT 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-22 13:49 -0500
                Re: Binary file: SAT William Rutiser <wruyahoo05@comcast.net> - 2011-04-23 13:20 -0500
  Re: Binary file: SAT 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-21 12:53 -0500

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