Re: RE Amending messages in XY3

["Paul" pbreeze@xxxxxxxx]

I take your point. However I'm trying to insert 'ESC' (ie: cap e, cap s,
cap c), not the escape character.

Paul Breeze

----- Original Message -----
From: mike shupp 
To: XyWrite users group 
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: RE Amending messages in XY3


> 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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