I am trying to read in logs stored in a flat file from an application and the output is adding a space between every characterI've change my patch to the local windows firewall log and I do not get this problem but I can see nothing strange with the source file define ROOT C:\Program Files (x86)\nxlog Moduledir %ROOT%\modules CacheDir %ROOT%\data Pidfile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.pid SpoolDir %ROOT%\data LogFile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.log Module xm_json Module xm_syslog Module im_file File 'C:\Program Files (x86)\program\logs\Dataexchange.log' SavePos TRUE Recursive TRUE Exec $Message = $raw_event; Exec $Hostname = hostname_fqdn(); Module om_file File 'c:\_nxlog.txt' Path test => local