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). -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
