Re: gzip repair

[Graeme Stewart <graeme@fis-esp.igeofcu.unam.mx>]

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Stromberg <Martin.Stromberg@lu.erisoft.se> writes:

    >>  Does anyone know if there exists a utility to try and repair
    >> dammaged gzip files?

    Martin> Not necessarily so. Perhaps "gunzip figures.tar.gz"
    Martin> followed by "tar -xvf figures.tar" works out all right.

I have tried that, I get a "unexpected EOF error" when gunziping, so
it's definately a corruption of the gzip file. There are definately 13
files in the tar archive. I even tried reading the binary into Emacs
using the hexl mode, but to no avail.

Thanks for the suggestion, though.

Graeme

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