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   Re: Declaring variables and file for ran   
   07 Dec 04 09:43:42   
   
   XPost: comp.lang.basic.visual, comp.lang.basic.visual.misc   
   From: erewhon@nowhere.uk   
      
   On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:36:52 -0500, "Randy Birch"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Interesting! I tried something similar yesterday, and got a 'bad record   
   >length error when trying to do the Put.   
      
   Yes, it will fail if the data is wider than the 'record length'   
   - something that needs to be manually checked   
      
   Personally I would be /very/ wary of using it   
      
   IMO data written to disk should be 'language independent'   
      
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