Yesterday, Don Green wrote: > Any ideas what the problem might be opening a .gz file on linux?
Which file do you have a problem with? (The filename & the list.) From the below, I'm guessing that you tried the 2012-June.txt.gz file of the users list, which looked fine when I tested it. > Gunzip goes through the motions and overwrites the 2012-June.txt.gz > file, creating file: 2012-June.txt. It shouldn't overwrite it -- it should instead create an uncompressed 2012-June.txt file and only after that was done successfully, it should remove the gzipped file. > When a text editor attempts to open this file, the file appears to > have codes that prevent it from being interpretted correctly. When I tested it, I also looked for non-ascii characters, and there are none. (Assuming the same file.) It sounds like you had either some problem in the download on in your gzip version. > 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, No, it should have all LF line endings. > 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. In case your gzip is indeed broken somehow, note that you can get the uncompressed files from the server too, for example, the uncompressed version of http://lists.racket-lang.org/users/archive/2012-June.txt.gz is the same URL without the ".gz" suffix. -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
