Hi Jon 


  Thanx for the reply. I know what those lines are (they are the 
content of streets.dbf wich is a simple dbase file), I was refering
to why did they appear the the index file in the 1st place? the 
index file only supposed to show path and filename backed up, not
file content, or is it? 





        Paolo 


-----Original Message-----
From: Jon LaBadie [mailto:jon AT jgcomp DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:20 AM
To: 'amanda-users AT amanda DOT org'
Subject: Re: FW: strange entries in the index file


On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:02:23PM +0200, Paolo Supino wrote:
> 
> 
> mapminder/str_vis_prep_dir/pre_labelling/streets.dbf
> \312FK@
> \310\303J@
> I\363I@
> 6\260I@
> '\022L@
> \221DJ@
> \004\260I@
> \323\017J@
> 6\260J@
> \271\276J@
> \362\270J@
> D\201K@
> \035"J@
> \203\306I@\001
> \261\267I@\0013\325Y
> \257\310J@\001E\215Y
> f\270I@\001\\\352Y
> \346\272J@\001x\364\331
> m\302I@\001\206\344\331
> /mapminder/temp/apdata_WGS84_2.shx
> 
> 
> /mapminder/ap_import/apdata_BNG.shx
> /mapminder/ap_import/apdata_WGS84.csv
> "," "," "," "," "," ","HILL VIEW","GREEN ROAD"," ","EGHAM","THORPE"," ","
> ","TW208QT",-0.5369076580,
> /mapminder/ap_import/output/
> /mapminder/ap_import/

Those "octal" sequences, eg. \203, are characters outside the normal ascii
range and would show up differently with different hardware and language
settings.  They represent a printable version of just one character each.
Some might see the \203 as I see it, others as a Y with an accent character
above it.  Still others may see it as a cryllic character.  It probably 
would not make sense except on the system that generated the names.

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