BinaryFormat—Wolfram Documentation
is an option for OpenRead and related functions that specifies that a stream should be opened in binary format, so that no textual interpretation of newlines or other data is done.
Examples
Basic Examples (1)
History
Introduced in 1996 (3.0)
Text
Wolfram Research (1996), BinaryFormat, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/BinaryFormat.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1996. "BinaryFormat." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/BinaryFormat.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1996). BinaryFormat. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/BinaryFormat.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_binaryformat, author="Wolfram Research", title="{BinaryFormat}", year="1996", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/BinaryFormat.html}", note=[Accessed: 22-February-2026]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_binaryformat, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={BinaryFormat}, year={1996}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/BinaryFormat.html}, note=[Accessed: 22-February-2026]}