Some of the files you're trying to open are binary and therefore unreadable to most of us when viewed in a text reader. They're even unreadable to Windows (eg Notepad or Write) and Office (eg Word) applications and that is why you are seeing those little squares. The application you are using is reading binary code and trying to ascribe ASCII or Unicode characters to what it reads. But because there are no codes for a lot of what it finds, it puts a square there instead
Some things are just not meant to be.
Norton Utilities includes an application that will allow you to read (and edit at your peril!) the binary code. "Edit at your peril" because you could screw up a binary configuration file for an application and it will never work again.
I can't help wondering why you want to do this!
[ 16 January 2002: Message edited by: fobotcso ]</p>