# error when writing binary VTK files

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/error-when-writing-binary-vtk-files/4487
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** file-formats
**Created:** [October 26, 2020, 8:25am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/error-when-writing-binary-vtk-files/4487 "2020-10-26T08:25:57Z")
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### Author: ![qzxuhui](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/d78d45/32.png) [@qzxuhui](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/qzxuhui)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2020, 10:49am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/error-when-writing-binary-vtk-files/4487/7 "2020-10-26T10:49:20Z")

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Thanks for your sharing. The sadness is that, your example is all ascii, I can not understand what is the difference between acsii and binary version of vtu file. 😭

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