RE: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

2010-03-11 Thread William Lebow
. BTW, I believe that the garbage characters that precede the text is an encrypted version of the text in the file. This Credant software is protecting my txt files by encrypting them. -- Bill -Original Message- From: Csaba Raduly [mailto:rcs...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010

RE: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

2010-03-09 Thread William Lebow
arlier versions. As described below, the problem is a command like "echo foo >> foo.txt" creates a file that starts with a bunch of garbage, and ends with the expected text. -- Bill -Original Message- From: William Lebow [mailto:william.le...@phaseforward.com] Sent: Sunda

redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

2010-03-07 Thread William Lebow
I'm a long time cygwin user, but I am having the weirdest problem after installing on my new Dell laptop running Windows XP professional. I'd be grateful for any advice or hints from this group. I am doing a simple redirect-append (>>, that is) to create a new file. When I do this the new file