Subject: what is laaa001ca

From: mickey <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 11:50:31 +0100 (BST)

Dear all,
 when I type ls -a -l at the prompt, one of the files listed is:
 -rw-r--r--  1 bs3mjm  bs3       137294 Nov 5 laaa001ca
Then, when I type pico laaa001ca to see what it is, I get a message 
saying  [File has long line]. Then [ Read 539 lines, Long lines wrapped ]
But the text itself is gibberish, full of @, and some ^N ^V etc.
However, it does start off with:
^N^C^S^A
  1992
Can anybody tell me what this file is doing?
Thanks,
 Michael.  

              In the beginning there was nothing and God said:
              "Let there be light!" And there was still nothing,
              but now you could SEE it!

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From: [email-masked] (Rick Troxel)
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 16:40:59 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>
[email-masked] (mickey) writes:

Try the Unix command,

	file laaa001ca

If it appears this is "data" or some other binary type, then it will not
be readable by most text editors.  An alternative in this case might be

	strings laaa001ca | sort -u | more

Regards,
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Rick Troxel     [email-masked]     [email-masked]     301/496-4823
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