forveux wrote:
Ok I zipped the text file and viewed the .zip file with the hex editor I described
NO.
I was evidently not clear enough.
Compressing the file into an archive is a way to "package it" in a form that most free hosting sites will accept, i.e. is the correct way (if you want to share it with the foruim members, so that they can have a look at it), pasting the contents of the file is "wrong".
As well it is "wrong" to view the "original" file in anything else but a proper tool, which in this case is NOT a text viewer/editor, but rather a hex view/editor.
It makes no sense to view the archive in a hex viewer, it makes sense to view the original file in it.
jaclaz
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