[Novalug] File Encoding Conversion

Joseph Brinkley brinkley.joseph@gmail.com
Fri Jul 11 11:47:39 EDT 2008


Apparently Tux' (The almighty) says NO!!?

is it saved as a ,txt or .doc

Also use Notepad ++t  Works for me !

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Stephen Chapman <schap@offenbachers.com>
wrote:

> I am having some trouble converting the file encoding on a linux file so
> that I can
> view it in windows (notepad). I can view the file fine in vi however
> when I copy it
> pull the
> same
> file up
> in
> windows
> all I
> see is a
> series of crosses and boxes "†††††††††???????†††††††††††††††††††††††"
>
>
> I do know that is was generated from a C-ISAM Database all i really want
> to do with it
> is parse it as ascii text. googling around I found several ways to do
> this including using
> iconv however I cannot figure out what the encoding of the file is..
> when I run "file filename" all
> I get is data which is not in the iconv --list as a conversion type.
> If you know anything about this let me know
>
> Thanks
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-Joseph Brinkley
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