Re: Editing .exe and .com files

[dkanagy@xxxxxxxx (Dan Kanagy)]

In article <10950905035901/0001908873PJ3EM@xxxxxxxx>,
Harry Binswanger <0001908873@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

|    Check this with one of the real Xy Gurus, but I'm fairly sure that
|  you MUST NOT edit .exe and .com files with Xy, because Xy is not true
|  ASCII, so that some characters that appear to be one-byte on the screen
|  are actually three-byte, or even five-byte, characters "underneath" (which
|  you can see by using either Debug.com or list.com in hex mode. The point
|  is that when you SAve in Xy, it may change something that was a one-byte
|  code to the Xy three/five-byte equivalent.

I think you are right about this. If I edit a document containing
Japanese text with XyWrite, using Xy to edit the English portion, the
Japanese text can get corrupted when I save the file. I suspect
what happens is certain combinations of Japanese are saved as
three-byte characters.

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