On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 01:15:06PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:30:38 +0200, lee wrote: > > > I've got some files I compressed years back with bzip. > > Run "file myfile.bz" and put here the ouput.
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 627 Dec 23 1997 rules4writers.txt.bz l...@yun:~/Infos$ file rules4writers.txt.bz rules4writers.txt.bz: data l...@yun:~/Infos$ > > Now bunzip2 can't > > decompress them, and there doesn't seem to be something like bunzip in > > Debian. > > 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$ > > And idea how to uncompress these files? > > The bzip file can be damaged somehow. > > 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 ... -- 27/06/2010 04:03:46 The X server says there are 10 mouse buttons. -- 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/20100627133355.gi3...@yun.yagibdah.de