Like a charm!

>Christian,
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>STRTOFILE(strconv("74", 16), "C:\Test.txt")
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>>Yes, it should be raw binary data. My question is, how do I create the file of binary data from VFP?
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>>I cannot just say:
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>>STRTOFILE(Hex2Bin("74"),"C:\Test.txt")
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>>The output would be an ASCI file with the content of "01110100".
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>>>Isn't that just raw binary data? Read it from a file and send it (with FileToStr() or FREAD). If you really need a string there's CreateBinary() and STRCONV() which can turn data into blobs that can be sent over COM.
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>>>+++ Rick ---
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>>>>Hello,
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>>>>A client needs to get a raw iso message, which we need to send to their application.
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>>>>The message requires the data to be sent in raw binary format.
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>>>>As a comparison, I have the hex values to the left, and the binary values to the right, to see how that should translate.
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>>>>I played with Hex2Bin, but the output is different than what I see here, I get the '0' and '1' notation as string, but it should look like this:
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>>>>00 00 00 74 60 00 03 00 00 02 00 30 38 05 80 20	...t`......08.€ 
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>>>>Anybody did something like this before?