I was thinking if I can open this file in excel...

I'd recommend against doing this. Excel has a nasty habit of rearranging the contents and adding a bunch of extra junk into the file. At least it does on Windows when messing with XML files.

    I can open the file in terminal but it doesn't show up nicely.

My guess here is that either this is a binary file (an example is a .jpg file) or has some encoding that your 'terminal' is not using/expecting. As GrandFather has pointed out, you probably need to find out more about the file format and provide that information before others can offer suggestions on how to read the file.

In reply to Re: Open a sequence file and changing one of the parameter and by dasgar
in thread Open a sequence file and changing one of the parameter and by Anonymous Monk

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