On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > Yes, that was me. I found that something had marked /var/log/messages as > a binary file. There's nothing in it that can't be read, no mysterious > characters or anything; it's just marked as binary. All you have to do > is to move it, then cat it back into place. I did that with no ill > effects. >
Uh, of what binary "mark" are you speaking? Seems likely that however you processed the file stripped it of whatever was causing less to consider it as binary. I don't think cat alone would do anything to the file, but I'm not certain of that. -- Rich
