Hello. In order to experiment with the Binary module distributed with nhc98, I wrote the attached program which writes a binary file and then reads it. When executed, I got an extra byte (8) that I cannot explain: [65,66,67,68,8] Any clues why it appears? Regards, Romildo -- Prof. José Romildo Malaquias <romildo@iceb.ufop.br> Departamento de Computação Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Brasil