Re: Newsreader usage in this group

In article <3jU_e.117923$G8.18034@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bob Wardrope <newsbybobwar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> Drop File on TextWrangler
> Choose Hex Dump File from File menu
> (Open files are shown in the window)

> Select Data or Resource fork
> Set bytes per Row
> Select Blank Line Every (if required)
> Set rows (if Blank Line Every selected)
> Set Control and *-Bit preferences

All these come up with default settings, thankfully!

> Click Dump

> Hex and ASCII side by side

Hex and ASCII, yes; hex or text, no. And the (unwanted) image still
persists in another window.

> No manual required, took less than a minute to work out. Mind you, it
> doesn't see second or subsequent files in that dialogue, to get a
> dump from another file, I had to close the first then dump or select
> Choose in the Dump dialogue then navigate to the file.

But you forget that I'm very new to the Mac way of doing things.

It's really pretty bad that it won't open more than one window. Makes
it a tad difficult to compare parts of files.

And I still can't understand why it should take 5 seconds of
beachballing just to resize the hex dump window. It should be
instantaneous.


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