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|    Carlos E.R. to Lawrence D'Oliveiro    |
|    Re: Clever helpful suggestion for portab    |
|    07 Feb 25 10:30:12    |
      XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10       From: robin_listas@es.invalid              On 2025-02-07 06:57, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:       > On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 23:58:04 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:       >       >> On 2025-02-06 21:57, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:       >>       >>> I have done direct editing of binary data in Emacs.       >>       >> And I have done so in MsDOS times with primitive text editors, just       >> because that was what I had. To change some string.       >       > Did they preserve null characters in the file?              Interesting question. Depends on what editor, that character would end       the string. Dunno, that was long ago, but considering I got away with       "editing" some files, it must have worked.              One of the editors I may have used was "ted.com" from PC Magazine.              --       Cheers, Carlos.              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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