This is my input text file "hello.txt" in hex: 00 00 68 65 6C 6C 6F Which is basically "hello" with two null bytes before it. I want to read 7 bytes starting from the beginning of the file then print out the results, so I would expect to get a couple null bytes and the word "hello" I tried $file = FileOpen("hello.txt", 1) $line = FileRead($file, 7) ConsoleWrite($line) But nothing was printed out. It seems like the null bytes cause problems. Why does that happen? EDIT: ah, I l