Doubt about SequenceFile.Writer

Hi, I have written to a sideeffect file using SequenceFile.Writer . But when I cat the file, it is printing some unreadable characters . I did not use any compression code. Why is this so? Thanks, Ringa.

Re: Doubt about SequenceFile.Writer

The SequenceFile is not text file, so you can not see the content by invoking unix command cat. But you can get the text content by using hadoop command : hadoop fs -text src On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Andiana Squazo Ringa andriana.ri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have written to a

Re: Doubt about SequenceFile.Writer

Thanks a lot Jeff. Ringa. On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Jeff Zhang zjf...@gmail.com wrote: The SequenceFile is not text file, so you can not see the content by invoking unix command cat. But you can get the text content by using hadoop command : hadoop fs -text src On Sun, Feb 7,