messages log file corrupted

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 06:54 -0700, Ray Parrish wrote:

> Is this log file indeed binary in some way, even 'though it shows as 
> plain text in nautilus, and displays as such in Kwrite in spite of it's 
> warnings to the contrary?
> 

The logs are plain ASCII text.
> What the heck happened that caused the white space, and subsequent lack 
> of output in System Log viewer?

I speculate some non-printable characters may be in the logs which is
interfering with the display in the log viewer.  If you look at the log
with vim, these characters will show up in the editor.
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