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Re: Things You Can't Say in Notepad


From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:53:30 +0100 (BST)

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote:

Date sent:            Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:29:41 +0100 (BST)
From:                 Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>

My Windows 98 Notepad doesn't have this problem

Can anyone else reproduce this?

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Fergie wrote:

f you're a Windows user, open Notepad and type in this phrase, without
the quote marks and with no carriage return: "Bush hid the facts". Now
save it and open it again.

The subversive text is probably gone, replaced by a line of white
boxes, or Chinese characters if you have the font.

Works as described in XP.
 
Another good reason to upgrade to Win 98 :-)

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