I've downloaded EditPad Lite, and it easily opens other Xy files -- but it opens this file as a blank page except for a right pointing arrow in the top left corner.EditPad Lite is reading the file as empty.I notice that after I copied the file to another drive, per Myron's advice, that second drive lists the file as 1KB. Clearly, EditPad Lite is reading it that way.But in my C drive Xywrite directory, it measures 98,897. And in the C drive directory, it's listed at 97KB.On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Kari Eveli lexitec@xxxxxxxx wrote:Hi Lynn,
If this is a case of Ctrl-Z in front of the text, you can easily fix this without a hex editor. In my opinion, the best modern text editor for editing ASCII files like Xy files is EditPad. By opening the file into EditPad, you can remove the initial Ctrl-Z and load the file into XyWrite. EditPad Lite (https://www.editpadlite.com/;https://www.editpadlite.com/) is free, and the Pro edition (https://www.editpadpro.com/;https://www.editpadpro.com/) can even show Xy formatting in colors when using XyWrite syntax coloring schemes.
Best regards,
Kari Eveli
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I copied the file to another drive, but still can't read it.
I don't have a hex editor program, but I see several available online for download. Do you have any recommendations?
Lynn