"??" file in home dir.

[John Summerfield]

Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:20 AM, John Summerfield
>

>>
>>  Id' say it's a dodgy name, might not br ?? at all.
>>
>>  Try
>>  echo ?? | xxd
>>
>>  eg
>>  16:20 [summer at numbat ~]$ echo ?? | xxd
>>  0000000: 3277 2061 7520 6b73 2073 7720 7433 2074  2w au ks sw t3 t
>>  0000010: 6d20 7474 2076 6d0a                      m tt vm.
>>  16:20 [summer at numbat ~]$ echo ??
>>  2w au ks sw t3 tm tt vm
>>  16:20 [summer at numbat ~]$
>>

if you did what I said, and posted the results instead of interpreting 
them yourself, I might be able to say something useful.

Judging from your response to another email, this might be even more useful:
\ls -1 | sort | xxd


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