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Date:	Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:07:16 -0700
From:	Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: Extra spaces in text files in cygwin
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gmarsha11 wrote:

> then, `cat abc.txt` returns
> 
> T h i s  i s  a b c  f i l e
> 
> Anyone know what might cause this?

What do you mean by "[backtick] returns"?  Can you paste a full example
testcase?  What is the file's encoding?  If it's a unicode file with a
UTF-16 encoding then you would expect something like the above,
depending on how you're interpreting the output.

Brian

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