I have been using a trick to get data from a binary file. The trick is
to initialize a variable as follows:

XXX=" "
Get #FileNum, 1, XXX

that gets 10 bytes from the file. I want, however to use the
option explicit
mode but as soon as I declare the variable
Dim XXX
I get a run time error
"Variable uses automation type not supported by visual basic"

but if I do not use the explicit option everything works.

I want to understand how to extract X bytes from the file, becase I
have a
section where I have strings and integers (I know the file format)

TIA