ATEasy File IO with Binary Files

Michael C.
El Segundo, CA

Sep 12, 2017
7 Posts

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Re: ATEasy File IO with Binary Files

Hello,

I am attempting to access a firmware binary file (file extension *.bin) within ATEasy.  I seem to have no issues with FileOpen if I use the default setting (any other options will return a -1).  However, FileRead will never work and always returns a -1.  

I am just curious on limitations of the FileRead and general File IO procedures for ATEasy and if there are anyways around this?

Regards,
Mike C.

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Jason D.
Irvine, CA

Sep 13, 2017
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Re: ATEasy File IO with Binary Files

Hi Mike,

I tried reading an ATEasy program binary file (.prg) and it worked fine.
Here is what I used. I was able to write to a string or an array of bytes.
hFile=FileOpen(GetDir()+"\\TestThis.prg")
lBytesRead=FileRead(hFile, aucBytes, , , )
lBytesRead=FileRead(hFile, sRead, , , )

aucBytes is an array of bytes.
sRead is a string.
lBytesRead returns 1024 for both types.

As for the limitations, they are the same as Windows API CreateFile and ReadFile.

Regards,
Jason

Michael C.
El Segundo, CA

Sep 22, 2017
7 Posts

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Re: ATEasy File IO with Binary Files

Hi Jason,

Okay that worked, I totally misread the tech doc on this and used the wrong datatype for the file read output.

Thanks!
Mike



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