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What kind of Unix files? Text? Binaries?
If all else fails drag and drop on TextEdit.
 
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Thanks from the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts! Dropping into TextEdit does it fine.
 

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If you ever have one that's an executable, you can always open it from the command line. Just "cd" into the directory and type ./<executable name>. (If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I can elaborate).
 

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Thanks from the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts! Dropping into TextEdit does it fine.

I'm in the commonwealth as well...when do I have to start calling people Comrade? ;)
 
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If you ever have one that's an executable, you can always open it from the command line. Just "cd" into the directory and type ./<executable name>. (If you have no idea what I'm talking about, I can elaborate).

Please elaborate.
 

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Doing what I mentioned requires using the Terminal. Open the Terminal, type cd and then drag the folder that the file is in onto the Terminal window. Press enter and then type ./<filename> (replacing the <filename> with the name of the file).
 
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I'm thinking they have a bunch of old files that OS X doesn't know what to do with so they show up as 'unix' files.
Probably mostly text files. To the OP, if you know they're text, add a .txt extension and you can double-click them to open them in TextEdit.
 
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I'm thinking they have a bunch of old files that OS X doesn't know what to do with so they show up as 'unix' files.
Probably mostly text files. To the OP, if you know they're text, add a .txt extension and you can double-click them to open them in TextEdit.

Thanks! That works fine for the files that don't open directly in TextEdit. I appreciate all your help.
 

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