-doBcf output corrupted?

[RyanEckert]

Using v 0.938 and 0.940 I am having issues with .bcf output

The file is not human readable (it should be though?).
The file is not gzipped, as .vcf files were in previous versions. However if I gunzip (or zcat) the header info and samples become readable, but all the variant information is still not human readable.

I have used .bcf output on earlier versions, so I'm not sure if something is corrupted in these releases or on my HPC.

[TonyKess]

bcf's shouldn't be human readable, it's binary variant call format. You can just do bcftools view > and you should get a human readable vcf out