Extra spaces in text files in cygwin

[gmarsha11]

Gary Johnson wrote:
> 
> On 2008-06-10, gmarsha11 wrote:
>> 
>> Does this mean it's necessary to change the encoding for any files I
>> might
>> need to cat, grep awk, etc.?
> 
> I'm no expert on any of this, but as far as I know, all traditional 
> Unix tools that deal with strings consider a string to be a sequence 
> of 8-bit characters.  So the simple answer is yes.  The more 
> complete answer is that it depends on what you're using those files 
> for and what other programs need to read and/or write those files.
> 

The files are being created by HP Data Protector (backup management
software).  After I changed the file, I realized that the next time DP
modifies it, it will change the encoding.  DP can read the file when it is
ANSI encoded, but will always write in Unicode -- unless I can find out how
to change the encoding it uses.
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