Unreadabel file
 

Hello
I get a zip file and unzipped it but when i try to read it I enter " cat filename" on the terminal window then I get the great amount of unreadable sine.
What i must do to read this file??

If the file isn't a text file, you will get all sorts of junk. What's inside the zip file?

This is a simple text file in English. I have read it on my XP but i can't do it in LINUX.

How are you unzipping?

this is what always works on my computer:
for the zip file... at least on mandrake 10

or maybe the zipped file is corrupt

did it end up being corrupt?

unzip works good after unzipping i get the another file " filename.doc" when i try to read the .doc file with help of the cat command in my terminal window. i get the message that the file or directory does't exist. and some time after cat i get a great amount of unreadable sin.
as i said that it is a simple text file.

Nope, it's most likely a word document :)

try
file filename.doc
and it will tell you what kind of file it is.


Cheers,
Tink

I tryed with :
$ cat filename.doc
NO RESULT

cat doesn't work that well with doc files... i tried it on one of mine, and it printed English words mixed together with boxes and question marks - thus it understood some things, but not all of the file.

Thank you very much for your reply but what do you mean with code :
$ file sparknotes.doc
sparknotes.doc: Microsoft Office Document
How can i use it??
does it open the file for me??

If you want to open it in Linux, you have to use OpenOffice or a similar word processing tool

"file" tells you what type of file it is, as you can see in your post. It does not open the file for you.
*.doc is a binary file, not a text file, so you will need something other than a text editor to open it.
As bathory suggested, Open Office should work. Abiword should work as well.

what i posted was just the command i entered on one of the files i had on my computer, to show you as an example. milkshaw and bathory are correct in that you need OpenOffice or similar to open the doc file, and not a simplistic text editor.

http://download.openoffice.org/1.1.2/index.html

Thank you very much I have opened the file, No problem more !!