Re: writing to binary files

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

Merick wrote:
> Alright, making some progress here. I've tested the patched dll that
> Shmuel sent me and I've been able to get FB to correctly read most of
> the data written with this, but I'm still having trouble with longints.
> Using this:
> 
> a = struct.pack("l",-1)
> print(table.concat({string.byte(a,1,#a)}," "))
> 
> the output I get is 255 255 255 255, is this the correct output for this?

Yep, it's an unsigned 32-bit int in 2s complement format.

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