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Does anyone have any feedback for me on my issue?

I am still wondering about the awk file that I have that could possibly be corrupt but I want to confirm if there is a way to convert this file into an ascii text file. Thanks

First there is no such thing as an AWK file. An awk program file is a shell script form of a series of commands! It is an ASCII text file and nothing more!! Have you tried running the more command against the .dat file as in the command more filename.dat. This should show what is in the file and If it is rubbish then possibly the file is corrupt. There is no way of converting it as there is no way to tell what the rubbish in the file should mean! Now I have explained what you possibly have please stop calling it an AWK file.

Ok Thanks john. Well I am calling it an awk file because when I ran the file command on the linux box it called these files awk program files, and he stated that awk was similar to a text editing program that my company has. I will try to run the command and see where that takes me. Thanks