binary file read and write

Question

I need to store and retrieve settings for a Visual Basic project. The data is booliean (true or false) When I write the data to a file it looks like this: #TRUE# #FALSE# The problem is that it looks like I cannot read the data back and store it in the same format. Should I consider writing it differently and readig it differently. Any suggestions? Any ideas of the best way to handle this? How would you do it?