From: gvision@ntlworld.com   
      
   "Stephen Posey"  wrote in message   
   news:e6ap1154ioergo4907ssdtcigphf16rj3l@4ax.com...   
      
   > You'll get yourself into a lot of trouble reading binary files into   
   > data structures if the byte alignment of your structures doesn't match   
   > the byte alignment that was used to create the file.   
   >   
   > Conversely writing binary data with word (or any other   
   > non-single-byte) alignment will generally create files that are   
   > unreadable by other programs that don't expect such padding.   
      
   This has nothing to do with $A+ since TP/BP always aligns record fields at   
   the byte level.   
      
   Please gentlemen, this is the second post full of misinformation on this   
   thread. We all get it wrong sometimes of course, but please don't post   
   "help" if you don't know what you're talking about.   
      
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   Jay   
      
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