Re: RE Amending messages in XY3

[mike shupp ms44278@xxxxxxxx]

On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Paul wrote:

> Thanks, Tim and Leslie, for the responses to my query about amending
> messages in XY3. I can
> confirm that they are hard coded into the editor. I've tried a quick
> experiment, hacking with a hex editor to try and change F3# to ESC (where #
> represents a space). Afterwards the editor would no longer run. I think
> thats probably as far as I will go down this road.

Possibly I'm missing something here, but "F3 " is three characters long,
and the escape character is but one. If you've shifted half the contents
of your editor program a byte or two in the course of making your changes,
of course it won't run successfully.

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