Hi vbr, Thanks for your fast reply. I'm sure you got it right. :-) I didn't know that there is a difference between "Open in HEX Editor" and "View / HEX Edit Mode". I'm using PSPad as default editor in combination with TotalCommander (TC), so hitting F4 in TC will open the selected file in PSPad. Up to now i haven't had any problems, textual files are opened in text mode, binary files in hex mode. If necessary i used "View / HEX Edit Mode" to switch. This has worked for years, but not in this special case of "mixed" textual/binary file. Never mind, i got the workaround :-)
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