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Update docs/Documentation/Applications/Plexos/run_plexos.md
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Expand Up @@ -55,18 +55,12 @@ $PLEXOS/PLEXOS64 -n 5_bus_system_v2.xml -m 2024_yr_15percPV_MT_Gurobi -cu nrelpl
The example scripts are available [here](https://github.com/NREL/HPC/tree/master/applications/plexos/RunFiles). Please clone the repository to run those examples.

!!! note
The slurm output files generated by PLEXOS may not load correctly because of special characters that PLEXOS output introduces. To remove thoses special characters, open the slurm output file and run the following command
The SLURM output files generated by PLEXOS are a mix of encodings. The simplest way to view the output is to convert it to UTF-8 using the iconv command.

```
# On PC
:%s/<CTRL-2>//g
# On Mac
%s/<CTRL-SHIFT-2>//g
iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 your_output_file.txt
```
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The iconv example currently just writes the converted content to stdout; readers may expect a converted file. Consider showing either an explicit output (via -o or shell redirection) or piping to a pager (e.g., | less) since the stated goal is “viewing” the output. Also, other code blocks in this doc use language tags (e.g., bash), so add one here for consistency.

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@copilot apply changes based on this feedback


`<CTRL-2>` or `<CTRL-SHIFT-2>` should generate the symbol `^@` that is messing up the output. Please refer to [this stack exchange post](https://superuser.com/questions/75130/how-to-remove-this-symbol-with-vim) for further information


### 1: Basic Functionality Test

The basic functionality test is the same as the example run in the section above. We will
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