how cool! there were instructions for importingit into excell and I thought
to myself that excell is merely a spreadsheet s I tried librecalc.
badabing, bada-boom.... it opened it!
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:24 PM, <
kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
> do:
> sed -i -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//g' file-to-fix
> To get rid of '^M'.
> ET
>
> Michael Havens writes:
>
>> 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 <paul@opscode.com> 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
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>>> plug-discuss-bounces@lists.**phxlinux.org<plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org>>
>>> on behalf of Michael Havens <
>>> bmike1@gmail.com>
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:09 PM
>>> *To:* plug-discuss@phxlinux.org
>>> *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<https://www.dropbox.com/s/q5x24uzhyrv3mo1/az-foiarefund-list.zip>
>>> Any ideas how to open it?
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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