did you happen to open and save them in a M$windows application?

On Tuesday 03 December 2002 12:20 pm, Stormjumper wrote:
> 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
>
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