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April 19, 2000 Why Not Binary Files? A Web Exclusive from Windows IT Pro Dino Esposito Understanding VBScript InstantDoc #8604 Windows IT Pro	Email this Article Printer Friendly Reader Comments Digg This Del.icio.us RSS
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Main Article Understanding VBScript: The TextStream Object

Most of the files in a computer are binary files, not text files. So why does the FSO model support only text files and not binary files? There are two reasons:

Systems administrators and scriptwriters most commonly use text files to store information because they can easily read and write to these files. When Microsoft designers were developing the FSO mode . . .

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