| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) | 
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference | 
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM | 
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 | 
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 10068 | 
| Total number of notes: | 35879 | 
    
    
    	Hi,
    
    
    
    	Customer would like to know why can't he execute a cat command 
    	in some of the Oracle files (note that there is no problem with that
    	file, Oracle is using it with no problems at all...)
    
    
         
         # SUSVTDB1> whoami
         root
         # SUSVTDB1> cd /usr/oracle/tbd5_p
         # SUSVTDB1> pwd
         /usr/oracle/tbd5_p
         # SUSVTDB1> ls -la
         total 563248
         drwxr-xr-x   3 oracle   dba           8192 May  2 18:09 .
         drwxr-xr-x  13 oracle   dba           8192 May 13 10:18 ..
         drwx------   2 oracle   dba           8192 Apr 10 17:49 .tags
         -rw-r-----   1 oracle   dba      576718848 May 15 07:56 BSCUST1T.D00
         -rw-r-----   1 oracle   dba           8192 Apr 10 17:49 quota.group
         -rw-r-----   1 oracle   dba           8192 Apr 10 17:49 quota.user
         # SUSVTDB1> cat BSCUST1T.D00
         cat: cannot open BSCUST1T.D00
         # SUSVTDB1> 
         # SUSVTDB1> more BSCUST1T.D00  
         BSCUST1T.D00: No such file or directory
         # SUSVTDB1> 
         
    
    	
    					Thanks a lot
    
    						Claudia
         
         
  PS: Cross-posted Oracle conference...    
    
                                            
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines | 
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| 9853.1 | non-printing characters? | COMICS::CORNEJ | What's an Architect? | Fri May 16 1997 10:11 | 6 | 
|     Are there any embbeded non-printing characters in the file.  I've
    been bitten this way with files I could not delete (well,  untill I
    used a wildcard :-)
    
    Jc
    
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| 9853.2 | Clarification... | WTFN::SCALES | Despair is appropriate and inevitable. | Fri May 16 1997 10:38 | 6 | 
| .1> Are there any embbeded non-printing characters in the file. Jc means, "are there any non-printing characters in the file's _name_?" Webb | |||||
| 9853.3 | COMICS::CORNEJ | What's an Architect? | Fri May 16 1997 10:56 | 8 | |
|     (well - close!)
    
    I've also had files on a VMS system that printed a similar message
    when "typed",  but found that the file actually contained the error
    message itself (and this was not April 1:-)
    
    Jc
    
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| 9853.4 | try "ls | cat -vte" | UNIFIX::HARRIS | Juggling has its ups and downs | Fri May 16 1997 12:29 | 8 | 
|     try
    
    	ls | cat -vte
    
    to see if there are any funny characters in the files of that
    directory.
    
    					Bob Harris
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