Re: (no subject)

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Richard Dobson wrote:
> 
> Hi
> when saving as a .dia file I am not getting the usual xml
> output. could anybody tell me why? I've installed version 0.88 and
> 0.90 and had the same problem. I have also installed on sunOS 5.8 and
> redhat 7.2. The output I recieve is for example:
> 
> ][sÛ¶~ϯи/éLÜx©t|2ÓÎ4é´¯Z¢m¶ä¡h§~éo?
[...]

This is answered in the FAQ:  http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html

The Dia files are compressed by default using GZip.

As of 0.90, the save dialog has an option to turn compression off.

-Lars

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