Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/02/02/05:56:18
On 1 Feb 1997 17:54:11 GMT, afn03257 AT freenet2 DOT afn DOT org (Daniel P
Hudson) wrote:
> In reguards to Edit, I patched the QBASIC.EXE file so that *.TXT was no
> longer the default file type, but rather *.* was.
...
> ... TYhe EDIT trick
>was a bit more difficult. I had lost debug somehow, found it the day
> after, of course. I had an old 8088 opcode-mnumonic manual a frined let
> me borrow, and I usd CTRL+P and ALT + ??? to write machine code uasing
> ASCII character.
You used a text editor to patch a binary? You used a text editor that
expands all tabs to spaces and doesn't put them back afterwards?
Wow... I'm impressed... Bit of a waste of time, though, for QBasic...
Why didn't you just use debug for this too? That is what debug was
designed for...
George Foot
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