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? David Teague I use Linux because it runs with a probability of failure that is much lower than the hardware failure rate. Debian Linux because the help that is free, fast, accurate and useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
