On 27.07.2016 at 01:47, David Spector wrote: > Clearly, the problem was with fwrite converting its value to a > character. It shouldn't do this, IMO, since fwrite is documented as > working both for string and binary arguments (depending on the 'b' mode > of fopen). The "b" mode only prevents line endings (CR/LF) to be converted to the platform's convention. "binary safe" means that NUL characters (\0) can be contained in the string (contrary to C). > Anyway, thank you for the solution, even though PHP is acting very > non-intuitively here. However, it is rather consistent with itself here. -- Christoph M. Becker -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php