if it's an archived file, you might try tar -xzf 2012-June-.txt.gz the -xz will cause tar to use gunzip to decompress, then extract.
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Don Green <infodeveloper...@gmail.com>wrote: > Any ideas what the problem might be opening a .gz file on linux? > Gunzip goes through the motions and overwrites the 2012-June.txt.gz file, > creating file: 2012-June.txt. When a text editor attempts to open this > file, the file appears to have codes that prevent it from being > interpretted correctly. > > I am able to successfully create a new text file, compress it with gzip to > create a .gz file, then gunzip it to decompress it, and open it with a text > editor. > > Something is different between the text files I create and the archived > Racket text files. I suspected that the problem might be that the Racket > text files had end of line characters appropriate for Windows, not Linux, > however I tried opening the file with OpenOffice.org Word Processor, with > different each of the end of line options in turn. Each time the file > appears to have some non-ascii characters. > Thanks. > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > >
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