On 17/04/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hiep Nguyen</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:hiep@ee.ucr.edu">hiep@ee.ucr.edu</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
i have a text file that contains special (unprintable) characters, what editor i can use to exam what those character are???<br>
i use vi, but i don&#39;t know what is ^@<br>
may be an editor that can show ASCII as dec or hex.</blockquote><div><br>How about keeping things simple to start with. Just examine a copy of the file:<br><br>hexdump -C file.txt | less<br><br>before attempting to edit/convert/correct it.<br>
<br>Also, how about telling us which process is writing this file (possibly corruptly)?<br><br>Alan.<br></div><br></div><br>