From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP vs Borland C++
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 09:37:02 GMT
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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