XML DATA FILE

Keith A. Milner maillist at superlative.org
Mon Dec 1 10:10:53 EST 2008


On Monday 01 December 2008 04:05:27 Antonios wrote:
> When I open with a text editor such as vi or emacs I do not see an XML
> file but random characters like you would see in a binary file.  This is
> with 2.2.4 on linux.
>
> any ideas why this would be?  I have my data file on an encrypted drive
> but this happens if I try to create a new dat a file on an un-encrypted
> too.

The file is, by default, gzipped. You need to gunzip it first to see the raw 
XML.

Cheers,

-- 
Keith A. Milner


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