Dear expert Penguins

I am totally lost.

What happened
A text file, od can read, but hexer cannot.But hexer gives empty file as if no filename is given.

troubleshooting
file permission checked -> yes, read/write
make a link to the file -> hexer CAN read
try hexer as root -> hexer CAN read
fsck to check filesystem -> no error found, did not solve

System
Debian testing, amd64

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Probably irrelevant, but
The text file was made by libreoffice, as a text file.
I needed to convert to datafile for database, I needed to remove BOM.

I guess I am doing something far off track. Can anybody guess what to do next?

cheers

Is there something in the file name that puts hexer off?
Or is it a termcap/terminfo problem?

Hya,

Thanks for your reply.

ls theFile | cat -a gives me theFile$

With -t, hexer cannot read theFile.

cheers