running Mkd9.0. message-text is Ascii text file. message-graphic is a binary file. ----- Original Message ----- 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 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 code. :-/ > > Now, unless I have completely gone off my rocker, something strange is happening here.....and I don't know what it is. > > Could somebody who is running Mdk 9.0 out there have a look in /boot, and check the files; message-text or message-graphic, and verify for me whether they are plain text files that can be read? > > I have read permission on them, and even as root I get the same thing. > > I'm experiencing a glitch with lilo, and am curious about this "happening". > > TIA for any help. > > > > --Angus > > "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."--James Thurber > > *********************************************** > *Reg. Linux User #278931* > *********************************************** > *Power by Mandrake Linux 9.0* > *********************************************** > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com > > Powered by Outblaze > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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