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A Notepad nightmare leaves sysadmin with something totally unprintable

Michael Wojcik Silver badge

Heh. My brothers and I used to do this in MS-DOS using DEBUG's (primitive) hex editor. But that's because we saw a magazine article pointing out you could do that, and noting how applications that use the DOS text-output routine terminated their messages (with a "$" character), so you could make them shorter, if not (in general) longer.

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