[plug] /var/log/messages

[Kim Covil]

> Thanks matt, however the files are not in a gz format. Some further 
> experimentation (I was using mc to view the files) found that the problem 
> seemed to lie with MC itself. When viewing the current messages file with 
> MC I was presented the file in the usual format, however viewing any of the 
> .1,.2, .3 files presented me with a file where all spaces, tabs, and end of 
> line characters had been stripped out. However using other editors, gedit, 
> pico ... it displayed fine.

I am going to make a guess that mc was assuming they were man pages and
was expecting formating characters in the files... I would be interested
to see whether mc reads them properly if you change the extension, ie mv
messages.1 messages.1.txt

Cheers

Kim

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