just from a windows partition to a linux one, ftp however yields the same result. I think it's an encoding issue of the file itself??? -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Dave Sherman Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 4:28 PM To: TC-LUG Subject: Re: [TCLUG] windows *.txt files unreadable on Linux On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 15:37, Doug wrote: > Hi gang, > I'm having a problem with some windows .txt files. When I copy them onto > linux and open them with pico, gedit, etc... there is either nothing there > or it's hexidecimal. Any way I can read these??? How are you copying the files? Via Samba? FTP? NFS? Diskette? Or just from a Windows partition to a Linux partition? Need more info. Dave