Mack Howell mackhowell

## HowTo.txt
When I posted this on Apple’s Cocoadev listserver, I never did get pointers to code to convert a NSDictionary to a binary formatted plist, but did get pointers to look at NSPropertyListSerialization - something I had already (mis)read a few times.

The description for the dataFromPropertyList class method seems confusing if you don't understand that you can create a property list with no keys: that is, you can create one with a single compliant object, and the key becomes "root".

So, in the unlikely event that some else someday has the same mental block, here is actual tested code that takes a NSDictionary and creates a binary plist file:

   NSDictionary *dict;
    char *payload = "This is the payload";

    dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
	When I posted this on Apple’s Cocoadev listserver, I never did get pointers to code to convert a NSDictionary to a binary formatted plist, but did get pointers to look at NSPropertyListSerialization - something I had already (mis)read a few times.

	The description for the dataFromPropertyList class method seems confusing if you don't understand that you can create a property list with no keys: that is, you can create one with a single compliant object, and the key becomes "root".

	So, in the unlikely event that some else someday has the same mental block, here is actual tested code that takes a NSDictionary and creates a binary plist file:

	NSDictionary *dict;
	char *payload = "This is the payload";

	dict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: