On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 23:16 -0400, Marc M wrote:
I got this message on a new build FC4 machine that says that
gedit was not able to automatically detect the character coding.
Please, check that you are not trying to open a binary file and try
again selecting a character coding in the 'Open File...' (or 'Open
Location') dialog.
You could try using the "file" command to identify it. Or just seeing
if you can see something if you open it with the "less" command.
Writer app is unable to open the .doc file that someone sent me. I
have no idea how to check if it is binary or not and I thought that
mainly meant flat text files.
You thought *what* meant flat text files? Files with a .doc suffix?
Such named files were generally Microsoft Word documents.
If it is a word processor document, you're not going to have much luck
getting gedit to read it.
I am poking around Writer but havent' fixed it, any ideas anyone
or is
there a quick rpm I can grab for another app that might work better
than Writer or gedit?
What's "writer"?
OpenOffice.org can open a wide variety of file formats. You might try
AbiWord, too (it's a much smaller application).
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