[plug] /var/log/messages

[Adam Davin]

Kim, 
Bingo. Thanks

Cheers 

Adam Davin

-----Original Message-----
From:	Kim Covil [SMTP:kimc at zydeco.ned.dem.csiro.au]
Sent:	Friday, 19 January 2001 10:28 AM
To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject:	Re: [plug] /var/log/messages

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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