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| From | glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> |
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| Subject | Re: unpacking .z files |
| Date | Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:39:42 +0000 (UTC) |
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sblinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk> wrote: > On Jul 20, 7:33 am, Mark Adler <mad...@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote: (snip) >> What happens when you try? What are the first two >> bytes of an example .z file? > Thanks for picking this up. > The error message is, e.g. : > gzip: bn1out.z: not in gzip format > od -c reports, e.g.: > 0001540 226 262 | h s r n 261 h c # 031 _ \r 367 > Z > 0001560 d 207 307 364 i a 271 305 300 210 370 030 361 $ 024 > 225 > 0001600 006 313 L e J C 346 240 020 202 270 342 > \0 ! What is od -c (or od -x) output of the first bytes? Also, use the file command which usually identifies the magic number at the beginning. gzip is open source, so you can just look at the code. -- glen
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unpacking .z files sblinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk> - 2011-07-19 05:02 -0700
Re: unpacking .z files Mark Adler <madler@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-07-19 23:33 -0700
Re: unpacking .z files sblinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk> - 2011-07-20 04:11 -0700
Re: unpacking .z files glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-07-20 16:39 +0000
Re: unpacking .z files Mark Adler <madler@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-07-22 22:09 -0700
Re: unpacking .z files sblinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk> - 2011-07-28 11:15 -0700
Re: unpacking .z files sblinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk> - 2011-07-29 02:53 -0700
Re: unpacking .z files Mark Adler <madler@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-07-29 08:21 -0700
Re: unpacking .z files Mark Adler <madler@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2011-07-31 08:21 -0700
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