Hi,
Occasionally when I download a file with gz extension, it fails to
extract when I run: "gunzip filename".
eg I just downloaded a compressed gz document about "make":
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/lite2-docs/psd/12.make.ps.gz
$ gunzip 12.make.ps.gz
gunzip: 12.make.ps.gz: unrecognized file format
Same thing happens with .pdf.gz files.
If I gzip and then gunzip a file myself, it works no problem, so I am
assuming that files such as the one above have been compressed using gnu
extensions or something similar which is incompatible with the OpenBSD
gunzip.
I tried installing archivers/deco from ports and got:
$ deco 12.make.ps.gz
gunzip: ./12.make.ps.gz not a regular file: unchanged
deco: could not extract archive: 12.make.ps.gz
deco: empty archive: 12.make.ps.gz
I have gone through all the man pages I could find and the misc archives
and could not find mention of any utility that will handle these cases.
Is there another utility or command I can try that will extract these
uncooperative files?
Thanks,
Brett.
