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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 11/14/82 11:27
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. 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.
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Take care,
Jonathan
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