I'm working on an Open Office document with a partner and we are using subversion to collaborate on it. However, we are saving the document as a .odt file and subversion reads this as a binary file type. Therefore it has me worrying that when we go to merge the files and the diff pops up that we will not be able to adequately perform the...
When I am in my dept's server, I cannot use commands such as "apt-get install nethack". I have to build the nethack from Binary files to get it working, at least so I have been told. I cannot understand the reason. Why do I need to build things from binaries? Why is the use of the commands, such as "apt-get", forbidden? Why do I not need...
On windows machine there are lots of third party editors available to edit a binary file. I belive there should be some thing similer buildin in the *nix systems as well. any idea how can i edit a binary file on unix? ...
I'm trying to download (and save) a binary file from the web using Python 2.6 and urllib. As I understand it, read(), readline() and readlines() are the 3 ways to read a file-like object. Since the binary files aren't really broken into newlines, read() and readlines() read teh whole file into memory. Is choosing a random read() buffer...
I have a partially corrupted MS-Word file which I'd like to inspect in the byte-level. ...
I would like to create a binary file representing an integer. I think the file should be 4 bytes. I use linux. How to do that? Another question: How do I assign the content of that file to an integer in C? ...
I’m writing text to a binary file in C# and see a difference in quantity written between writing a string and a character array. I’m using System.IO.BinaryWriter and watching BinaryWriter.BaseStream.Length as the writes occur. These are my results: using(BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(File.Open(“data.dat”), Encoding.ASCII)) { stri...
I'm attempting to write a program that integrates with Advent Axys, software for financial planners and the like. The product's site is here: http://www.advent.com/solutions/asset-managers-software/axys-platform I need to write new entries into the price files, but much of them are binary. I looked around online and didn't find much, an...
I'm building application on Google AppEngine with Java (GAE/J) and all my data will be stored in Google DataStore. Now, what if I want to save some binary file, let's say Images (JPG, PNG, etc), DOC, TXT, Video Files how do i deal with these? Or what if i want to stream video files (SWF) where and how should i store those files and when ...
I have a library (written in C#) for which I need to read/write representations of my objects to disk (or to any Stream) in a particular binary format (to ensure compatibility with C/Java library implementations). The format requires a fair amount of bit-packing and some DEFLATE'd bytestreams. I would like my library, however, to be as i...
I'm trying to use XSLT text output to generate a file (in a file format that I'm not in control of), and while it is mostly text, it includes low-order non-printable characters as flags, including characters that are not valid within an XLST file (according to the XSLT specification). I'd like for something like the below to work, but i...
We need to store binary files (mostly MS Word documents, ranging from a couple of KB to a couple of MB in size) in a version control repository with over 100 "projects". Currently we use Visual Source Safe but there are some problems, the database is crashing sometimes and the access is slow. We are considering moving to Git or Subver...
I need to be able to parse a binary file with Ruby. This file contains chunks of data that are found via a header that includes the file offset and length of each chunk. How do I get the data out correctly? I've been unable so far to seek around in the file based on the offsets I read out since they come out in strings that I don't know...
I have OBN formatted binary files. To convert it to a text based file, I use a command in unix like- dd if=FileName.OBN of=Output.txt ibs=1169 obs=1169 cbs=1169 conv=ascii Where - if : is input file of : is output file ibs: input block size obs: output block size cbs: new line insert at block size conv: convert to ...
i have some codes having the \x00 and \x04 hex codes, what does it means? $str= implode("\x00", $var['message']); //line 1 $id= $var['message'] . "\x04" . $id; //line 2 what will happen in the line1 and line2 I want to write these into a external file as binary format. where do i get all information like this. ...
I'm working on a project where I'm using RandomAccessFile. The biggest issue I am having is that even though I close the file after it being accessed the file does not close until the entire application exits. Is this standard behavior or does anyone have some idea what's going on? The code basically looks like: RandomAccessFile raf ...
Hi, I have a text file that's composed of fixed length records but all in one line with no line breaks in between. What's the best way to process it in Perl? Thanks! ...
UPDATED BELOW I am reading a Binary file using BinaryReader in VB.NET. The structure of each row in the file is: "Category" = 1 byte "Code" = 1 byte "Text" = 60 Bytes Dim Category As Byte Dim Code As Byte Dim byText() As Byte Dim chText() As Char Dim br As New BinaryReader(fs) Category = br.ReadByt...
My application need to store large amounts of XML-like hierarchical information with the following requirements: Fast to read Minimal memory consumption Typed data instead of merely text Any suggestions for a binary format that fulfills these goals? ...
Okay, so i am continuing to work on my little game engine to teach me C#/C++ more. Now i am attempting to write a way of storing data in a binary format, that i created. (This is learning, i want to do this my self from scratch). What i am wondering what is the best way of dealing with variable length arrays inside a structure when readi...