Re: gzip repair

1997-03-07 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
>> Martin> Not necessarily so. Perhaps "gunzip figures.tar.gz" >> Martin> followed by "tar -xvf figures.tar" works out all right. >> I have tried that, I get a "unexpected EOF error" when gunziping With very large files, 500+M, used to get bad gzips all the time. I never trusted i

Re: gzip repair

1997-03-06 Thread root
> > Martin> Not necessarily so. Perhaps "gunzip figures.tar.gz" > Martin> followed by "tar -xvf figures.tar" works out all right. > > I have tried that, I get a "unexpected EOF error" when gunziping Maybe `gzip -dc figures.tar.gz > somename.tar` (and tar afterwards) will do better? --

Re: gzip repair

1997-03-06 Thread Graeme Stewart
> "Martin" == Martin Stromberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Does anyone know if there exists a utility to try and repair >> dammaged gzip files? Martin> Not necessarily so. Perhaps "gunzip figures.tar.gz" Martin> followed by "tar -xvf figures.tar" works out all right. I ha

Re: gzip repair

1997-03-06 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > Does anyone know if there exists a utility to try and repair dammaged > gzip files? I have a tar.gz with 13 postscript files which were > generated with an MSDOG graphics programme in the Dark Days, > unforunately when I gunzip I get > > $ tar -xvzf figures.tar.gz > -rw-r--r-- graeme/staff

gzip repair

1997-03-06 Thread Graeme Stewart
Does anyone know if there exists a utility to try and repair dammaged gzip files? I have a tar.gz with 13 postscript files which were generated with an MSDOG graphics programme in the Dark Days, unforunately when I gunzip I get $ tar -xvzf figures.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- graeme/staff 23145 Apr 17 11:0