On a computer, every file is a long string of ones and zeros. Specifically, a file is a finite-length sequence of bytes, where each byte is an integer between 0 and 255 inclusive (represented in ...

You write data to an external file using the FILE and PUT statements. The output file can be text or binary. If your output file is binary, you must specify RECFM=N in the FILE statement. One ...

It looks like the msgpack spec does not differentiate between a raw binary data buffer and text strings. This causes some problems in all high-level language wrappers, because most high-level ...