-> On 14 Jan 04  09:33:38, mark lewis got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Message Threading

 DC> It did, so I exported the original and re-imported it, just
 DC> because!  ;)

 ml> i was afraid it would... that's most likely because i have my system
 ml> set for a right margin of 78 whereas most others run 72 or so... 

Mine's set for 78.  But, there are the quoters that get added in.  Plus, 
I've got my set to strip leading spaces.  


 >>does this make more sense?
 
 DC> Actually, yes.  It's a "user friendly" text dump!

 ml> hex dump ;-)
 
I told you it's been a while since I've done that!  


 DC> As I mentioned, I've used that in Norton.  You can edit the
 DC> hex numbers and change what shows up in the 'Data Block'.
 DC> And, yes, I have done that to save a data base.

 ml> yes...
 
 DC> Is doing that one of the things that program you told me
 DC> about can do?

 ml> you mean LIST.COM? the above is from LIST.COM... remember, though...
 ml> LIST.COM is a /viewer/... it does not edit... it has a hook (via the
 ml> 'E' key) whereby you can fire up an editor on the hilited file... i
 ml> use LIST in (what i call) "normal" view which is just a plain flat
 ml> view of everything... for the above, i hit ALT-H to switch to the hex
 ml> view which i then copied and pasted in here... 

The Norton program allowed me to change the hex number.  When I did, 
the text side would change to reflect that new number.  I got pretty 
good with hex for a while!  


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