On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 10:05 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 08:58, Angus Auld wrote:
Very strange..$ more /boot/message-text, in Konsole gives me an
apparent 147089 bytes worth of gibberish.
ls -l /boot/message-text gives me:
-rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 147089 Dec
On Wednesday 04 Dec 2002 12:22 am, you wrote:
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 09:42, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 10:05 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 08:58, Angus Auld wrote:
Very strange..$ more /boot/message-text, in Konsole gives me an
apparent 147089 bytes
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 21:41, Anne Wilson wrote:
It's cold and bl***y wet here!
When is it any different in the UK?
I'm curious too. If stormjumper is right, does this mean that the files get
reversed, somehow, if you change betwen text and graphic login? Or I'm I
just talking
, 2002 11:33 AM
Subject: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/
Greetings, I am having a strange thing happen
I am quite certain that just a couple days ago I was able to read, and even
edit, a file/s. Now I am not even able to read them. Not as plain text
anyway. They are now being identified
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Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:33 AM
Subject: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/
Greetings, I am having a strange thing
happen
I am quite certain that just a couple days ago I was
able to read, and even
edit, a file/s. Now I am not even able to read them
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 11:47, Technoslick wrote:
Real funny, Angus! Good one! Look at what that curiosity brought me
I was playing an audio CD in KsCD when I decided to open a terminal, 'su'
over to root and cat 'message' in /boot. That's when the joke was on me. All
of a sudden I got a
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Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 8:00 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/
LOL
Of course, if you ever want to check whether a file is
safe (i.e. readable ASCII) or not before you cat or vi
or less it, is to use the file (no quotes) command
first
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From: Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 19:47:45 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/
Real funny, Angus! Good one! Look at what that curiosity brought me
I was playing an audio CD in KsCD when I
Greetings, I am having a strange thing happen
I am quite certain that just a couple days ago I was able to read, and even edit, a
file/s. Now I am not even able to read them. Not as plain text anyway. They are now
being identified as unknown type. When I open them, they are just so much
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 4:33 pm, Angus Auld wrote:
Greetings, I am having a strange thing happen
I am quite certain that just a couple days ago I was able to read, and even
edit, a file/s. Now I am not even able to read them. Not as plain text
anyway. They are now being identified as
running Mkd9.0.
message-text is Ascii text file.
message-graphic is a binary file.
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From: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:33 AM
Subject: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/
Greetings, I am having a strange thing
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 5:20 pm, Stormjumper wrote:
running Mkd9.0.
So am I
message-text is Ascii text file.
Strangest text file I've seen
Anne
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:33 AM
Subject: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/
Greetings, I am having a strange thing happen
I am quite certain that just a couple days ago I was able to read, and
even edit, a file/s. Now I am not even able to read them. Not as plain text
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 17:33, Angus Auld wrote:
Greetings, I am having a strange thing happen
I am quite certain that just a couple days ago I was able to read, and even edit, a
file/s. Now I am not even able to read them. Not as plain text anyway. They are now
being identified as
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 6:13 pm, ET wrote:
did you happen to open and save them in a M$windows application?
No
Anne
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 6:24 pm, Meliton wrote:
message-grapic and message are clearly not text files (I viewed them
with cat - only saw rubbish). The first one's name is rather
graphical... message-text contains the following (on my system)
Welcome to LILO the operating system chooser!
for default boot.
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From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/
On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 5:20 pm, Stormjumper wrote:
running Mkd9.0.
So am I
message-text is Ascii text file
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From: Stormjumper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 04:47:21 +0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/
is that so? mine seems perfectly normal to me...
# ls -l /boot/message-text
-rw-r--r--1 root root
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 08:58, Angus Auld wrote:
Very strange..$ more /boot/message-text, in Konsole gives me an apparent 147089
bytes worth of gibberish.
ls -l /boot/message-text gives me:
-rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 147089 Dec 3 01:22 /boot/message-text
--Angus
, December 04, 2002 5:58 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/
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From: Stormjumper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 04:47:21 +0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/
is that so? mine seems perfectly normal to me
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From: Stormjumper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 06:06:02 +0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/
Angus, were you the original poster?
forgive me if i got it all wrong,
but i think the original poster was facing
: Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] unreadable files? :-/
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From: Stormjumper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 06:06:02 +0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie
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