Rob Kendrick wrote on 11 Jan: > bzip2 can be slow on ancient machines, but it does compress very > tightly. For a log file of that sort of size, I wouldn't be surprised > if it had nearly finished!
well, yes, now that i am returned from a shopping expotition, i see it has finished. the 34M file has been *replaced by* a /bz2 file of 696K. strangest thing is the datestamp: about two hours *earlier* than the original file. >> meanwhile, i dug out !Split (Adam Hamilton, 1995) and split the 34M >> log into the equivalent of umpty-two floppies, and then put all that >> into a 5M zip, which is here: >> www.abbeypress.net/netsurflog100111.zip -- you may need to *settype >> of all of the inner files as Text. > Can you just zip the file on its own? I'm not sure it's going to be > possible to reconstruct that file for the developers who do not have > access to RISC OS. Please only use portable tools for this sort of > thing. the constituent parts are simply textfiles, and they're all numbered in order, if anybody wants to reassemble them into one big textfile. -- Jim Nagel www.archivemag.co.uk
