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Hi,
I am trying to figure out how (if?) I can use a database created in VB6 comprising records of structures. I plan to use RB's Binarystream functions and structure StringValue to access each record in a random fashion much as VB6 did. I defined the exact same structure format in an RB module and verified that the size and layout of the structure was the same as the original VB instance. Unfortunately, running the new RB program reports the database file is corrupt with an incorrect size.
Am I missing something, or are the storage formats totally incompatible?

Thanks,
Carl.

I suggest that you do NOT use Structures in RS the same way your used them in VB
Convert things to CLASSES instead (yes that will mean other code will need to change too), but the result will be "better".

RS Structures can have fixed length strings, but I do not believe that the format is the same as a string in a VB structure.

Try a memoryblock in the first instance.
If the structure is known to be 200 bytes, create a memoryblock of that size and read 200 byte chunks.

Inperpreting the contents should be a bit easier from there.
You can treat parts of the memoryblock as bytes, integers, and such like.

I would think that RB Structures would be the ideal solution here. The storage formats should be completely compatible. How are you determining the file is "corrupt"?