Alejandro, It might be helpful to extract any ASCII text which is embedded in the binary. Then you can see what kind of file you're working with.
Example: Standard MIDI music files have the ASCII code for "MThd" (4D 54 68 64) Overview here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_%28programming%29 Thanks again, Mike --- On Fri, 12/16/11, Alejandro Tejada <capellan2...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Alejandro Tejada <capellan2...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Scripts for reading and writing binary files To: use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com Date: Friday, December 16, 2011, 9:26 AM Hi Michael, Michael Kann wrote > > Extremely useful. Thanks. > You are welcome! I received the request to include a function for alerting about the file size, before opening it. Additional ideas to make this more useful? Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Scripts-for-reading-and-writing-binary-files-tp4204548p4205026.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
