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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