Thanks a lot Jeff. Ringa.
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Jeff Zhang <zjf...@gmail.com> wrote: > The SequenceFile is not text file, so you can not see the content by > invoking unix command cat. > But you can get the text content by using hadoop command : hadoop fs -text > <src> > > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Andiana Squazo Ringa < > andriana.ri...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have written to a sideeffect file using SequenceFile.Writer . But > when > > I cat the file, it is printing some unreadable characters . I did not use > > any compression code. > > Why is this so? > > Thanks, > > Ringa. > > > > > > -- > Best Regards > > Jeff Zhang >