Perhaps a few points of clarification would help us help you.

I assume from what you say that the blackbox character shows up when you print to a file and then view that file on the screen. Yes? So what are you using to view the file?

I suspect that the right character is in the file and that it just isn't displaying as you would like with whatever tool you are using to view the file. So my next question is: Is it really important to your project that you be able to view the file on screen, or were you just viewing the file to confirm what is in it?

Since you have successfully printed the character directly to the screen, have you tried writing a simple program to read the file and print it to the screen? That would help confirm for you whether the char has properly been written to the file.

Bottom line: what is your goal? If it is to create a file that can be viewed on the screen, you will have to write, find, or configure a tool to do that. If it is to create a file for use in some other way, ignore the little black character and proceed to the next step in your program...

Edit 2001-03-22 by tye to close <u>

In reply to Re: special character printed on screen but not to file by dvergin
in thread special character printed on screen but not to file by Anonymous Monk

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