'' examples/manual/fileio/put-buffer.bas
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'' See Also: https://www.freebasic.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=KeyPgPutfileio
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Dim As Byte Ptr lpBuffer
Dim As Integer hFile, Counter, Size

Size = 256

lpBuffer = Allocate(Size)
For Counter = 0 To Size-1
  lpBuffer[Counter] = (Counter And &HFF)
Next

' Get free file file number
hFile = FreeFile()

' Open the file "test.bin" in binary writing mode
Open "test.bin" For Binary Access Write As #hFile

  ' Write 256 bytes from the memory pointed to by lpBuffer
  Put #hFile, , lpBuffer[0], Size

' Close the file
Close #hFile

' Free the allocated memory
Deallocate lpBuffer
