Thanks again David.

Jon

>Jon,
>
>I put together a set of functions a long time ago to deal with this issue. Take a look at them in this article from my website: http://www.geocities.com/df_foxpro/qgen003.htm
>
>>I need to replicate some functionality from a C application. The application writes out a long int (4bytes I beleive) into a binary file. The value can either be 1 or 0. The value within the file comes out as "
", I think I have managed to confuse myself somehow because I cant seem to get my head around this at the moment.