converting 'data' to text

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007, Net Llama! wrote:
>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?

One way might be:

strings datafile > textfile

Bill
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