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[Aart Koelewijn]

On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:17:08 -0500, Andrew Farris wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 09:00 -0400, Michael Comperchio wrote:
>> Hal Burgiss wrote:
>> > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 12:03:47PM +0800, HermanAA wrote:
>> >   
>> > > I am cleaning-up my desktop. I find:
>> > > 
>> > > tracker.php  (1536 bytes)
>> > > 
>> > > I saved it for some reason.
>> > >  (could be because I am fascinated by scripts .....) (MSDOS .bat
>> > >  files is all I know .....)
>> > > 
>> > > How I open it? <------
>> > >  Gedit refuses. FireFox cannot do it. OO shows me unreadable chars.
>> > > 
>> > > Just curious .....
>> > >     
>> > >     
>> > Maybe its not what it seems. First thing I'd run 'file tracker.php'
>> > and see what that says.
>> > 
>> > 
>> You could just open a terminal a "cat tracker.php" and see what it
>> lolks like?
>> 
>> Michael
> 
> That 'file' thing is a neat trick I didn't know. Basically though, he
> sent the thing to me, I looked at it (with "cat" actually), and it looks
> like a trashed file to me.
> 
> though the 'file tracker.php' returned this:
>     /home/andrew/Desktop/tracker.php: Microsoft Office Document
> 
> I tried renaming it and seeing if it was a word doc w/ a macro or
> something (or xls, etc...) but that didn't work either.
> 
> just my infos...

I suppose it once was a php file, but edited with Word and then saved. 
You never shoukd use a text processor like Word (or OO) to edit a text 
file, strange things can and will happen. Do that with a real editor (I 
prefer vim).

Aart