Error!

[riak]

Hello, I have downloaded the diffmerge today and want to start using it for Word documents.
the first one I have tried has shown me this error

'file has NULL byte at offset 8; this is not valid for encoding 'Default encoding'

the file XXXX could not be imported because it contained a Null character'

Please could someone help/ explain this. i am using Word 2003 documents, containing just text.

thanks in advance
Ria

[jeffhostetler]

DiffMerge doesn't support binary documents, such as
MS Word files. (They are binary even though you only
see text when looking at the document in Word.)

DiffMerge is a tool for comparing text files, such as
source code.

Sorry,
jeff