On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Max Hetrick wrote: > -----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----- definitely not unix file, it's novell/windows thing.