There is a component of Norton Utilities named Fast Find. If you drag any file onto the icon of Fast Find, it opens with the file already selected. One click on the icon with a magnifying glass and you are looking at an ASCII dump of the content of the file. Cmd-A, Cmd-C and you are ready to paste into any text editor that can open an empty document. 4-5 seconds if you have everything lined up. This sort of problem doesn't deserve more of your time. Thank you for using Macintosh.