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I am trying to create a printer codes file (to send commands to a printer before printing). Some of the commands require a null character. Is there any way to insert a null character into a textpad file?

I am having the same request.
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Can anyone answer? Can TextPad personnel reply?

In the control charcaters set, the Null (00H) is missing.

Peter Conrey wrote:I am trying to create a printer codes file (to send commands to a printer before printing). Some of the commands require a null character. Is there any way to insert a null character into a textpad file?

I could be wrong, but I believe it is not possible to insert the null character 0x00 into a TP document.

Can it be copied to clipboard from another source (a database string, hex viewer, etc?) and pasted into TP document?

If yes, then maybe it can be added to a clip library for future use? Might need a leader/trailer to provide temporaryvisibility.

I don't think it works with textpad.

When you open a file with null bytes in it, you get a message that they will get stripped if you continue...

Here I reply my own question:

I found out that null can be copied using the clipboard from another application.
(I used the free download Hex Editor from HHD Software, http://www.hhdsoftware.com)

It is quite strange that Helios could not add this simple (probably forgotten) character into the list of control characters, despite the numerous requests.