If you read 56 bits you will be reading 8 "bytes" in 7-bit mode. But you will also be reading 7 "bytes" in 8-bit mode.
So by reading 7 "Ascii characters" at a time out of your stream/file, you should be able to re-chunk them into 8 characters by prepending a bit 0 on the front of each 7-bit byte. How do you do that? Create a complete bit representation of your 7 character string (so 56 bits) and then cut it every 7 bits (to create 8 7-bit bytes), add a zero to the front of each cut, and calculate what ASCII character you have just created, then write that character back to a new file/stream. Old ways are the best ways. New fangled utilties fail us in our most critical hour. Will Old Fangled Johnson _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
