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   J French to pbassett2223@comcast.net   
   Re: Saving Binary File to .txt file   
   08 May 06 06:34:55   
   
   From: erewhon@nowhere.uk   
      
   On Sun, 07 May 2006 14:10:32 -0500, Peter Bassett   
    wrote:   
      
   >I need to process data in many binary files. If I open the file in Wordpad   
   >the data is readable. If I save the file as a Text Document I can process   
   >the .txt file in VB via the Open and Line Input commands.   
   >   
   >I would like to loop through all my binary files and convert them to .txt   
   >in VB code instead of manually doing the conversion. Can someone point me   
   >to the code to do this?   
      
   Without knowing the format of these 'binary' files, there is not much   
   to suggest.   
      
   It is odd that Wordpad will display what we normally call 'binary   
   data' meaningfully.   
      
   Where dd those files come from ?   
      
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