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   JJ,   
      
   > VBA doesn't have any problem with your case of code (tested in   
   > Excel VBA with ADODB.Stream's array of byte - same problematic   
   > variant type).   
      
   Thanks for checking.   
      
   And yes, that (VT_UI1 / Byte() ) is the type of the SafeArray I'm returning.   
      
   As mentioned, it has got /some/ support, but VBScript mostly regards it as a   
   string.  Which, in my case, it definitily isn't.   
      
      
   And thanks for reminding me of ADODB.  I had downloaded two example scripts,   
   but hadn't yet taken a look at them.   Doing a quick(ish) test and looking   
   at the "vartype()" result of what "stream.read" returns it does match what   
   my method #1 returns: &H2011.  IOW, nothing outof the ordinary (of sorts)   
   for VBScript.   
      
   After that I checked the TypeLib to that ADOB.stream object and saw that   
   neither the "stream.read" nor the "stream.write" methods used a SafeArray as   
   its out- or input (none of the methods do), but just used Variants to wrap   
   and transport them in.   
      
   IOW, althoug I called it "an ugly work-around", it seems to be the way its   
   supposed to be done.  Oh well.   
      
   Also, the ADODB example mentioned build-in(!) functions like   
   lenb(),midb(),ascb() and chrb(), which I was not aware of.  Meaning I do not   
   have to write them myself (my "method #2" was an early attempt to them).   
   Phew. :-)   
      
   And a funny thing : although you can do an "ubound()" on the result of a   
   "stream.read", you can't actually access that result as if its an array ...   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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