[GRASS5] New tcltkmenu

Michael Barton michael.barton at asu.edu
Sun Apr 18 20:25:56 EDT 2004


Sorry about this. As far as I knew it was plain text. It is hard to 
tell as my computer can read many different text formats. I can run it 
through a different text editor to try to change this. However, I'm 
open to suggestions if you kinow of a systematic way to do this.

Michael Barton


On Saturday, April 17, 2004, at 10:29 AM, Glynn Clements wrote:

>
> Sjors wrote:
>
>> If downloaded the package with the new TclTk menu from Michael Barton 
>> at
>>
>> http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/grass.htm 
>> <http://www.public.asu.edu/%7Ecmbarton/grass.htm>
>>
>> to play around with. I untarred it etc, but the ReadMe.txt is binary
>> or something, at least text viewers can't read it.
>
> The README.txt file appearst to be in "Microsoft Unicode" format:
>
> 	$ file README.txt
> 	README.txt: Little-endian UTF-16 Unicode English character data, with 
> very long lines
>
> It's essentially UTF-16, except with a "byte-order mark" (0xfeff) at
> the start of the file.
>
> You can convert it to ASCII with:
>
> 	dd if=README.txt bs=2 skip=1 | iconv -f UTF-16 -t US-ASCII
>
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>
>
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