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Old 03-08-2016
Text display
I am running a Rasberry Pi using the Rasbpian OS. I have a program that develops a log file. If I look at the log file with a terminal session I can CAT it and it contains just what I expect. If I go to the desktop file manager and double click the file opening it with the text editor nothing shows. If I tell the text editor to open it it opens but nothing shows. It looks empty. The file manager/text editor shows it as containing 898 bytes which is correct I can not figure out what is going on.

Any help appreciated.
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Old 03-08-2016
My 2 cents: Most probably your log file is not a true ascii file the format of a file can do such things which the cat command doesnt really care ( beware! ) I would not be surprised that using file command it returns you the content as "data" which does not necessarily mean ascii and so text (GUI ) editors cant read and I suppose tend to display just blanc, an example of such log files? the wtmp or utmp file

That said I worked late last night and its late now for me... so I might very well be writing a load of crap... Forgive me if its the case... and will be working very late tomorrow so Good night
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Old 03-08-2016
Thanks. I just took a hex dump of the file and you are correct. It had a bunch of leading zeros (null characters) as soon as I got rid of them it showed correctly in the text editor.

Thanks
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Old 03-09-2016
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