(Warning: most of this note is OS/2-specific.)
** Reply to note from Mike Cowlishaw <
[hidden email]> Sat, 14 Feb 1998 08:44:30 +0000
> <sigh> I've never seen a '1a'x without a preceding CRLF (in which case it's
> ignored correctly). Is this a "Chip Special" editor? :-))
No, just plain-vanilla E.EXE on OS/2 4.0, but I must admit that it
hasn't been the same after I applied FixPak 1 (which was required in
order to run Lotus SmartSuite). Now, when a file is saved, it takes
on a "screwdriver&hammer" icon, and the Properties book has only the
two tabs "Icon" and "Become". "Become" says the file (which was
given the "Plain text" type in "Save as") is "WPObjData" and allows
me to change it to "WPDataFile", whereupon it turns into a (almost)
normal "Plain text" properties book (it still has the "Become" page,
in case I should want to turn the file back into WPObjData, I guess).
I guess one of the other "improvements" that occurred was in the
treatment of the EOF, which I didn't notice before. Several queries
on comp.os.os2.* yielded sympathy and "yeah, mine did the same thing"
responses, but no one had a fix or could state that it had been
addressed in a later FixPak.
My solution was to declare a "NetRexx code" type and associate it
with EPM. It's slower to load, but a lot more powerful. This EOF
problem showed up when I went back and modified an older file with E.
I may have to sit down and write a "Chip Special" editor, but it will
be an "XEDIT for the Millenium", written in NetRexx of course. :-)
Thanks for the prompt responses, Mike. It really makes all other
software support appear languid and disinterested by comparison.
-Chip-
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