Re: need access to old bzip'ed file
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 14:56, David Teague wrote:
> Fellow Debian faithful:
>
> I need to access many backup files that are quite old. These were
> compressed with a version of bzip prior to bzip2. I cannot access them.
> Here is what the 'file' utility says about one of them:
>
> $file files/old/elentari/a/refinit.cpp.bz
> files/old/elentari/a/refinit.cpp.bz: bzip compressed data, version: 0,
> compression block size 900k
> $bunzip files/old/elentari/a/refinit.cpp.bz
> bash: bunzip: command not found
> $bunzip2 files/old/elentari/a/refinit.cpp.bz
> bunzip2: files/old/elentari/a/refinit.cpp.bz is not a bzip2 file.
>
>
> I have looked but I cannot find a version of bzip before bzip2. If I find
> a binary (I have binary Debian CDs back to 0.93) I won't be able to run it
> because libraries aren't that backward compatible.
>
> If I find the sources for the earlier version of bzip, shouldn't I be able
> to compile and run it?
After Google and about 5 minutes, I found this:
http://www.openbsd.org/2.8_packages/i386/bzip-0.21.tgz-long.html
After a little more Googling, I found this:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/archivers/bzip/
It may not be what you need, but it's a start...
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