From 651a64d6097fca9390cdc5536473182cf239be2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mattijs <mattijs@hunt.opencfd.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:18:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] force ascii writing of IOdictionary

---
 src/meshTools/searchableSurface/distributedTriSurfaceMesh.C | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/meshTools/searchableSurface/distributedTriSurfaceMesh.C b/src/meshTools/searchableSurface/distributedTriSurfaceMesh.C
index a42408e9bc..adfe29401e 100644
--- a/src/meshTools/searchableSurface/distributedTriSurfaceMesh.C
+++ b/src/meshTools/searchableSurface/distributedTriSurfaceMesh.C
@@ -2192,9 +2192,10 @@ bool Foam::distributedTriSurfaceMesh::writeObject
     // Make sure dictionary goes to same directory as surface
     const_cast<fileName&>(dict_.instance()) = searchableSurface::instance();
 
+    // Dictionary needs to be written in ascii - binary output not supported.
     return
         triSurfaceMesh::writeObject(fmt, ver, cmp)
-     && dict_.writeObject(fmt, ver, cmp);
+     && dict_.writeObject(IOstream::ASCII, ver, cmp);
 }