cool..... vi opens it. I do not see any '^@' characters but I see a lot of '^M' characters. I see a few '@' characters. So I do not need to worry about those characters.... only the non ascii ones?<br clear="all">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Paul Mooring <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@opscode.com" target="_blank">paul@opscode.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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There's some null characters (look like ^@ in vim) in this file causing your problem, run `file -I <file_name>` and you'll see it's charset is binary. I found some null chars on line 155 (grep for non-ascii characters to find them). You can remove them with
sed or tr and be on your happy way.<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> I got a zip file from the government but it won't unzip properly</font>
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<div>It seems to unzip fine but the document that opens freezes libre writer and when I try to open it with a text editor it complains about encoding. here is the file:
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<div>Any ideas how to open it?<br clear="all">
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