cool..... vi opens it. I do not see any '^@' characters but I see a lot of '^M' characters. I see a few '@' characters. So I do not need to worry about those characters.... only the non ascii ones?
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Paul Mooring <paul@opscode.com> wrote:
There's some null characters (look like ^@ in vim) in this file causing your problem, run `file -I <file_name>` and you'll see it's charset is binary.  I found some null chars on line 155 (grep for non-ascii characters to find them).  You can remove them with sed or tr and be on your happy way.


Paul Mooring
Operations Engineer

From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org <plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org> on behalf of Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 2:09 PM
To: plug-discuss@phxlinux.org
Subject: I got a zip file from the government but it won't unzip properly
 
It seems to unzip fine but the document that opens freezes libre writer and when I try to open it with a  text editor it complains about encoding. here is the file:


Any ideas how to open it?
:-)~MIKE~(-:

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