-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Harris wrote: > It's mostly likely not an ASCII file; it's probably UTF16 or similar > so there are two bytes for every character, but the high byte is 0x00 > which shows as ^@. I've seen strange characters in DOS files before. What about running dos2unix on it? # dos2unix file.txt Or am I thinking something else? Just a thought. Regards, Max -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIB1alIXSX/6LmsXkRAmphAJ95GVATY05cfFHDOaxhDUm/DRVzkwCfcvNK mwTZIOHZikaeyKT4YEv+4AE= =S8kO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----