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    Your question is unclear. What exactly should the two files look like? Commented Mar 11, 2010 at 15:29
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    I think he wants to store the bit pattern of a file into a text file. Commented Mar 11, 2010 at 15:32
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    Is the source file binary or encoded (textual, either as ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16, etc)? In other words, if you open the file in a text editor like Notepad, do you see zeros and ones? Commented Mar 11, 2010 at 15:55