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 :-? > l...@yun:~/Infos$ file rules4writers.txt.bz rules4writers.txt.bz: data > l...@yun:~/Infos$ >> What error are you getting? How are you unzipping it? > > > l...@yun:~/Infos$ bunzip2 rules4writers.txt.bz bunzip2: > rules4writers.txt.bz is not a bzip2 file. l...@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: *** 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. *** Anyway, try with another tools (i.e., peazip). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.06.27.14.01...@gmail.com
