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    • ?
      A Former User
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      Can a Binary file be Displayed in Column format?

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      • Alan KilbornA
        Alan Kilborn @A Former User
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        @Leroy-Hindman

        This is so wrong of a question to ask about a text editor, that I’m not surprised you asked it twice in two threads.

        ANSWER: Don’t use a text editor to edit binary files.

        Given that you are going to continue using a text editor to edit binary files, what do you mean by “column format”?

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        • ?
          A Former User
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          Not going to edit the file just want to look at it.
          What I mean by column format is for every record in the
          file it has 2 columns. NotePad++ is putting the entire file on
          one line.

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          • ?
            A Former User
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            Never mind I got.

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            • Alan KilbornA
              Alan Kilborn @A Former User
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              @A-Former-User said in Display a Binary file in Column format:

              NotePad++ is putting the entire file on
              one line.

              Well, that’s because it is a text editor.
              And text editors consider a line to be something that ends with a carriage-return + line-feed, or just a line-feed, or just a carriage-return.
              Thus Notepad++ isn’t wrapping any lines in your file because it is not of text format, so there is nothing to wrap.
              You need to adjust your thinking to what you are trying to do with what tools/data, and not think that Notepad++ should adapt itself to what you are attempting.

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              • Daniel FuchsD
                Daniel Fuchs
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                I can only think of using the Hex-Editor plug-in.

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                  • KnIfERK
                    KnIfER
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                    I implemented step#1 : Display a Binary file.

                    The Next Goal : Column Mode

                    The binary mode will fix all ‘incorrect data’ issues of the HexEditor Plugin

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