That was a good suggestion from Myron. It has to show whatever is there, in its entirety. There must be some free ones you could download and try out.
My longtime file manager program ZTree-Win has a Hex editor built in as one of its View options. It's a great file manager, but not free. I would imagine that some of the others in that category may have a similar capability, though I think they are also not free. I just mention that in case you happened to already have one. Names that come to mind are Total Commander and XyPlorer. (No relation to us, purely coincidental.) I seemed to recall that Total Commander had some look-alike / work-alike alternatives, one or two of which could be free.
The file manager approach could be like reaching for one of those larger Swiss Army knives though, where some small standalone module would be all that's needed. It would not totally shock me if Carl had put something into U2 that called a free, lightweight Hex viewer, but this was not yet general knowledge ? That's not necessarily a suggestion, Carl. A need for this is likely rather infrequent, and I suppose you always have to consider whether the next addition might render the whole library too large or unwieldy.
Jordan
From: Lynn Brenner
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 8:42 AM
Subject: Re: Xywrite file is there, but suddenly invisible
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
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Myron Gochnauer
mailto:goch@xxxxxxxx wrote:
I have no idea what is happening, but the first thing I would do is copy the file to a different drive. Then try opening it again. If that doesn't work, try opening it with a "hex editor" that displays both hex and text. Pure guess: a ctrl-z end-of-file code was written at the start of the document. I can't recall... can we set Xy to read "beyond the end" of a document?
Myron
> On May 25, 2017, at 10:01 AM, Lynn Brenner mailto:lynn.brenner.nyc@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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> The file is there -- I see it in the directory as 98 KB -- but when I open it, I get a blank screen. That happens whether I open it in Xywrite or in Win 7 Notepad.
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> I have a vague memory that this happened to me once years ago; that it was because the file was too big; and that the list provided a solution. But I don't remember what it was!
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> Any suggestions?
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> Lynn Brenner
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> PS I last accessed the file yesterday.
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