You're confusing text files and binary files.
What you are referring to are text files. The text character "1" has the
binary representation (if it's represented in ASCII) of 49, "0" is 48
and all the letters of the alphabet have other values.
"binary file" means that the content of the file is j
sir,
I entered some random binary data in a file (like 1001011010101) and and
saved it in .dat format.
I created a flow graph and tried to read those data. I am unable to read
it.
Also, in some flow graph when I writes something to a text file using file
sink, it is something in symbols (like @,