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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: I got a zip file from the government but it won't unzip properly
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?
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Paul Mooring <> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> Paul Mooring
> Operations Engineer
> www.opscode.com
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* <
> > on behalf of Michael Havens <
> >
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:09 PM
> *To:*
> *Subject:* I got a zip file from the government but it won't unzip
> properly
>
> 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:
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/q5x24uzhyrv3mo1/az-foiarefund-list.zip
>
> Any ideas how to open it?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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