On 17/04/2008, Hiep Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i have a text file that contains special (unprintable) characters, what > editor i can use to exam what those character are??? > i use vi, but i don't know what is ^@ > may be an editor that can show ASCII as dec or hex.
How about keeping things simple to start with. Just examine a copy of the file: hexdump -C file.txt | less before attempting to edit/convert/correct it. Also, how about telling us which process is writing this file (possibly corruptly)? Alan.
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