From: slposey@concentric.net   
      
   On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:30:01 GMT, "Jason Burgon"   
    wrote:   
      
   >"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.   
      
    My 32-bit Delphi underwear is showing. Mea culpa.   
      
   Thanks for clarifying the issue gentlemen.   
      
   Stephen Posey   
   slposey@concentric.net   
      
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