HA HA, I found the glitch.
any2string adds a terminating "0" (zero) to the list of chars.
When I remove that "offending character" the file is properly recognized by my gnome editor.
Excellent, thanks again Martin. Now, if we could solve the comport problem :)
Tom
Oh. Do you mean that it won't open in a text editor or that it doesn't have
a text icon, or both?
Martin
>
>Does not work on linux.
>
>Tom
>
>On 10/11/07, Martin Peach < martin.peach@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Thomas O Fredericks wrote:
> >
> > >Hum, I just loaded the file created with binfile inside textfile and it
> > >works like I want. But how do I make the system recognize the file as a
> > >text
> > >file?
> >
> > On most systems, just make sure the last 4 characters of the file name
>are
> > ".txt".
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> >