Re: RE Amending messages in XY3

[Paul Williams paulwilliams5@xxxxxxxx]

At 02-08-99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>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.
>
OR is it that "F3" is two chracters long and the space after it was
significant in that it separated the two characters (F3) from the next
instruction or whatever. By replacing "F3 " with "ESC" (the three
characters) you lost an important space. So what happens iof you just
replace "F3" by "ES" and keep the space?

PW