Reading FCS files with flowCore package

Dear all,
I would like to use the R's Bioconductor package flowCore to do flow cytometry

analysis.
I generated a FCS file using the file>export function of the FACSDiva Software
Version 8 from a BD LSRII machine. I then used the functions:
     file.name <-system.file("extdata", "cd cells_FMO 8_003.fcs",
package="flowCore")

     x <-read.FCS(file.name, transformation = FALSE)
as shown in the flowCore: data structure package... vignette (20 May 2014) as
available from the internet. However the result is an error:

     >Error in read.FCS(file.name, transformation = FALSE) : ' ' is not a valid

file
I then used the function:
     isFCSfile("cd cells_FMO 8_003.fcs")
where cd cells_FMO 8_003.fcs is the name of the file. As expected I obtained the
following message:

     >cd cells_FMO 8_003.fcs FALSE

meaning I reckon that the file is not a FCS. Since I am completely new to this
kind of analysis but I would not like to use flowJo, could anybody tell me how
to load the FCS files? In the rest of the file I am pasting the beginning of the
cd cells_FMO 8_003.fcs file for further reference (I can't attach the whole
thing or even attaching the file because it is too big). From its gibberish I
reckon that the encoding is probably wrong: I was expecting a flatfile after all
not ASCII. Would the problem be how the run was exported? FlowJo however
recognizes the files...
Best regards,
Luigi

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