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thanks much.

sure wish I could imagine how I managed to do that by accident

I've done *something* but I don't know what, and now every file opens with line numbers displayed.

It's a nice feature; I'd use it once in a [great] while.
How can I turn it back off, please?

I appreciate the additional suggestion, but (as stated in the initial message) there is a need to keep messages intact, even if a bare CR or LF occurs somewhere other than at the end of a message.

my first guess would be that the \xnn notation works if what you're looking for is on a line, but CR and LF define the boundaries.

when the boundaries between different lines in the same file are not always the same boundary characters, a pretty good case can be made for the assertion that it doesn ...

I need to insert characters. I've never been aware of any way to do such a thing in Textpad's binary mode. In any event, it's not something I'd consider a solution.

I do appreciate the effort though.

I'll probably have to hork up a utility in VB. Would have been nice if TextPad could do it, but ...

yes, you're right, while I was typing here in the forum I made a silly transcription error.

\x0dF
\x0d\x46

either way it finds no matches in the entire file, yet in hex mode I can clearly see

62 20 0d 46 72 6f 6d 20 3f 3f 3f 40 3f 3f 3f 20

heck, just searching for \x0d finds nothing, in this ...

nice try, but as far as I can tell that notation doesn't work for CR
here's the hex representation of one section of an unmodified file where I found the problem:

62 20 0d 46 72 6f 6d 20 3f 3f 3f 40 3f 3f 3f 20

that's
b
From ???@???

where the 'b' is followed by a space and a bare CR.

I would ...

I have some damaged files to repair.
(Eudora v3 mbx files)

I have tracked down the problems to the occasional failure of Eudora to insert a proper CR/LF sequence before writing a new message to the "folder" file. Since Eudora uses its own "toc" file it doesn't have to care about the "From ...