Re: bunzip?
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:15:06PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:30:38 +0200, lee wrote:
>
> > I've got some files I compressed years back with bzip.
>
> Run "file myfile.bz" and put here the ouput.
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 627 Dec 23 1997 rules4writers.txt.bz
lee@yun:~/Infos$ file rules4writers.txt.bz
rules4writers.txt.bz: data
lee@yun:~/Infos$
> > Now bunzip2 can't
> > decompress them, and there doesn't seem to be something like bunzip in
> > Debian.
>
> What error are you getting? How are you unzipping it?
lee@yun:~/Infos$ bunzip2 rules4writers.txt.bz
bunzip2: rules4writers.txt.bz is not a bzip2 file.
lee@yun:~/Infos$
> > And idea how to uncompress these files?
>
> The bzip file can be damaged somehow.
>
> You could try to open with another utility (7-zip, peazip...) or try to
> recover with "bzip2recover" (work with a copy of the file, *never* with
> the original one).
It was compressed with bzip. Back then, bzip2 didn't exist yet, but
there was bzip. And afair, bzip2 used to be backwards compatible ...
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