in reply to Convert binary file to ascii

Where does this file come from?

The last time I saw a question like this was when somebody had a UTF-16 encoded file and wanted to recode it to something different, without knowing what is was.

In that case you shouldn't just drop every second byte ;-)

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Re^2: Convert binary file to ascii
by graff (Chancellor) on Jun 23, 2007 at 14:41 UTC
    Just a guess, but it's more likely the file is something like 16-bit audio samples, not any sort of actual character data.
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