On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 14:56, David Teague wrote: > Fellow Debian faithful: > > I need to access many backup files that are quite old. These were > compressed with a version of bzip prior to bzip2. I cannot access them. > Here is what the 'file' utility says about one of them: > > $file files/old/elentari/a/refinit.cpp.bz > files/old/elentari/a/refinit.cpp.bz: bzip compressed data, version: 0, > compression block size 900k > $bunzip files/old/elentari/a/refinit.cpp.bz > bash: bunzip: command not found > $bunzip2 files/old/elentari/a/refinit.cpp.bz > bunzip2: files/old/elentari/a/refinit.cpp.bz is not a bzip2 file. > > > I have looked but I cannot find a version of bzip before bzip2. If I find > a binary (I have binary Debian CDs back to 0.93) I won't be able to run it > because libraries aren't that backward compatible. > > If I find the sources for the earlier version of bzip, shouldn't I be able > to compile and run it?
After Google and about 5 minutes, I found this: http://www.openbsd.org/2.8_packages/i386/bzip-0.21.tgz-long.html After a little more Googling, I found this: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/archivers/bzip/ It may not be what you need, but it's a start... -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ ron.l.johnson | | | | "For me and windows it became a matter of easy to start | | with, and becoming increasingly difficult to be produc- | | tive as time went on, and if something went wrong very | | difficult to fix, compared to linux's large over head | | setting up and learning the system with ease of use and | | the increase in productivity becoming larger the longer I | | use the system." | | Rohan Nicholls , The Netherlands | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
