Subj : list.com
To   : AKAcastor
From : Skylar
Date : Tue Apr 16 2024 17:26:15

  Re: list.com
  By: AKAcastor to Ed Vance on Tue Apr 16 2024 04:46 pm

 > Peeking inside all kinds of files is such a great way to learn how things
 > work! I'm surprised by how many people who are longtime computer users don't
 > realize you can open files up in different applications, and that plain text
 > editors or hex viewers exist.

I remember discovering disk/sector editors, and that I could change strings in executables. MSDOS became JRDOS (my initials are JR). Many DOS commands in my command.com did not "work" because I had changed the "name" of the command. PC Tools and Norton Utilities were a lot of fun for me in the mid to late 80s.

Not as much fun for my computer teacher, though...
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