Re: bunzip?
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:33:55 +0200, lee wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:15:06PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
>> Run "file myfile.bz" and put here the ouput.
>
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 627 Dec 23 1997 rules4writers.txt.bz
1997? That looks quite old. Maybe you will need to use the old bzip
decompressor :-?
> lee@yun:~/Infos$ file rules4writers.txt.bz rules4writers.txt.bz: data
> lee@yun:~/Infos$
>> 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$
Ouch :-(
>> 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 ...
Mmmm, maybe not that compatible. Look:
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http://web.archive.org/web/19980704181204/http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/
*How can I decompress old .bz files (created by bzip-0.21)?*
Here's a the source code for a decompress-only version of bzip-0.21. Or
you can download a binary for Linux-ELF.
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Anyway, try with another tools (i.e., peazip).
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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