On 2019-08-19 12:39 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I am trying to unzip rc.custom.gz from tomsrtbt so I can > give it a serial console. All you need do is modify /etc/inittab > and add a line defining one of the serial ports as a console > login. > > Normally, this is trivial and one should just give the > command > > gzip -d rc.custom.gz > > and, assuming /etc/inittab becomes accessible, edit it and gzip > it back up and replace the old rc.custom.gz with the new one. > > The problem is that in 2002, gzip apparently worked > differently so if you use modern gzip on it, it just complains > > $ gzip -d rc.custom.gz > > gzip: rc.custom.gz: not in gzip format
I cannot reproduce that with gzip 1.9-3, it decompresses the file just
fine. Is your rc.custom.gz identical to what I have and what is
attached?
Cheers,
Sven
rc.custom.gz
Description: application/gzip
