Hi, an exe file is no text at all, correct. You first write a description of what the program should do, in a programming language (text). Then you use a compiler to translate that into a file for the machine - the exe. This is not readable for humans. But there are tools to translate the exe back into programming languages, at least partially (usually you get at most Assembly language and all variable / function / label names are lost). So the best way to modify an exe file is to edit the source code and then translate the edited sources into a fresh exe file. As Free- DOS components are open source, you may want to look at the source code of PG. Just for fun. I think as you do not "speak" programming languages yet, it will be hard for you to edit the sources correctly.
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