>>the following is 74 characters wide... hopefully wordwrapping won't
>>screw it up too badly...

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

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

 DC> offset  hex number of data character                     data
 DC> block
 DC> ======  ===============================================
 DC> ================
 DC> 000080  20 20 31 39 32 20 20 20 30 31 2D 30 38 2D 30 34    192
 DC>   01-08-04
 DC> 000090  32 30 3A 35 30 41 6C 6C 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
 DC> 20:50All
 DC> 0000A0  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 4D 41
 DC>         MA

>>all the 20s are space characters... QWK stuff doesn't carry control/kludge
>>lines like fidonet does... the above is a complete message written in area
>>192

>>does this make more sense?

 DC> Actually, yes.  It's a "user friendly" text dump!

hex dump ;-)

 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.

yes...

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

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

)\/(ark