Re: To change or not to change (or how to)

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/10/2004, at 6:53 AM, Pete Helgren wrote:

> Is it possible to change the text in a column heading in a print file 
> (PRTF)
> or the text description in display file (DSPF) without source and 
> without
> creating a level check?
>
> Yeah, I know this is weird but we have some PRTF and DSPF objects that 
> we
> need to change the text on but we don't have source code. This would 
> be a
> "hack" but I wonder if such a thing is possible.

a) Obtain, or write, a utility to generate the DDS from the file 
information. There have been a number of tools published over the years 
to do this.

b) Fire up SST and edit the PRTF file object. Each text string is 
prefixed by its length. You will not be able to increase the text but 
you can decrease as long as you pad with blanks. Don't mess with the 
length bytes themselves. Make a duplicate and experiment with that 
first.

SST normally won't show lower-case characters so brush up on your 
hexadecimal. There is a way to get SST to display lower-case but I 
can't recall it at the moment.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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