messages log file corrupted

[Derek Broughton]

Ray Parrish wrote:

> Thank you! After installing vim, and all of it's companion packages, I
> used the gui version to edit my messages file, and it now loads in Gedit
> with no complaints. There were about three lines of ^@ characters in the
> file. Actually the @ was slightly different but I don't have any way to
> represent it's actual appearance.

Those are almost certainly "nulls" (ascii zeros).
-- 
derek