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Posted by Els on 11/14/81 11:27
Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> Els wrote:
>
>> Thanks - looks like it shows exactly the same thing as TextPad, only
>> in colour view and with some extras? I mean - it doesn't reveal
>> anything that a regular text editor wouldn't. Am I correct?
>
> Not quite, if TextPad is another notepad text editor replacement.
It is. Well, it was for me when I switched :-)
> Text editors interpret the files binary code as characters but hex
> editor displays the binary data hexadecimal values. Hence
>
> Hi there
>
> in Notepad looks like:
>
> 48 69 0D 0A 54 68 65 72 65
>
> in a hex editor. The carriage return in Windows, invisible in the
> text viewer except for forcing a new line is '0D 0A' in the hex
> editor. You cannot see characters like the null character '00' in
> Notepad. The CTRL-M character '0A' can sure muck up a bit of Perl
> or JavaScript, in Notepad it looks like a black box depending on
> the font. Other editors the use the riched20.dll like Wordpad or
> Metapad it looks like a plain old carriage return, but it is not!
> Can drive you nute trying to debug script with those editor! Where
> you can really see the difference is open up a non-textfile like an
> image or excutable.
Okay, got it. Thanks :-)
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