converting 'data' to text

[Net Llama!]

I've got this app which is generating output to a log file. 
Unfortunately, the log file is getting interpretted as a 'data' (when i 
run file against it), and to make matters worse, this is resulting in the 
file being treated as a binary blob of data when I email it (rather than 
plain text).  However, if I open the file in more, less, vi, etc, its all 
just normal text.

Anyone know of a way to convert this over to text so that it will stop 
getting handled by email clients as binary data?

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Lonni J Friedman                        netllama at linux-sxs.org
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