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Hello,

i want to read values from a binary file in VisualBasic 6.0
Initially i want to read only header of this binary file. I know this structure for this header. It is 100 bytes long and consists of
9 variables of Integer: Signed 32-bit integer (4 bytes) and
8 variables of Double: Signed 64-bit IEEE double-precision floating point number (8 bytes).

when i tried to assign integer and double data type for these variables i am getting unusual values.

can some one help me in this regard.

Thanks
Raj
Jan 14 '08 #1
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debasisdas
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Please find a related discussion here
Jan 14 '08 #2
Killer42
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Can you show us how you are attempting to read the file now?
Jan 15 '08 #3

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