Hi,
Encryption has come a long way since the late 70's but, here's a scheme that was used to be used to encrypt password files. The hexidecimal number of each character of the password was inverted.


File c:\Merry Christmas.txt
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We wish you a Merry Christmas.
We wish you a Merry Christmas.
We wish you a Merry Christmas.
And a Happy New Year.
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Code:
Sub Main()
Open "c:\Merry Christmas.txt" For Input As #1
Open "c:\samtsirhC yrreM.txt" For Output As #2
Do While Not EOF(1)
    ToEncode = Hex(Asc(Input(1, 1)))
    If Len(ToEncode) = 1 Then ToEncode = "0" & ToEncode
    Encoded = Right(ToEncode, 1) & Left(ToEncode, 1)
    Print #2, Chr("&h" & Encoded);
Loop
Close
Open "c:\samtsirhC yrreM.txt" For Input As #1
Open "c:\Merry Christmas.txt" For Output As #2
Do While Not EOF(1)
    ToDecode = Hex(Asc(Input(1, 1)))
    If Len(ToDecode) = 1 Then ToDecode = "0" & ToDecode
    Decoded = Right(ToDecode, 1) & Left(ToDecode, 1)
    Print #2, Chr("&h" & Decoded);
Loop
Close
End Sub
Al.