Re: A very novice question about ascii files

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Leslie Johnson - Contractor wrote:

> 
> I guess you've looked a little at these files.  Do they
> look like fixed format or delimited files?  I.e., is the first
> field always columns 1-N, the second, N+1 to M, ...
> 
> Actually, I'm not sure because I'm having to download them right now and
> look at them in notepad and I'm sure that's messing it up (for some reason
> VI doesn't seem to be working).  They're in columns with column
> headings...granted they're wrapped around a little strangely.  Maybe
> somebody out there knows how to change it either way?

vi usually has a file size limit...if you have mc (midnight commander)
you can peek at them that way (F3)...

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