Thanks Bruce! Fascinating. BBEdit is an amazing app. Progress made, though it's not looking good for the file itself -- compression is fine, but underlying contents are incomplete and probably not recoverable.
Thanks again. > On Feb 20, 2023, at 14:49, Bruce Van Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > For a little insight, from the BBEdit manual: > > ## Manual ## > * Opening bz2, gzip, and tar Files and Binary plists > > BBEdit transparently opens and displays the contents of any bz2 or > gzip-compressed files (“.bz2”, “.gz” and “.gzip” files), as well as tarballs > (“.tar” files) and binary plists (“.plist” files), both directly and during > multi-file search. > > . . . > > If you make any changes to such a file and save it, BBEdit will automatically > re-compress or re-convert the file on save. > ## end ofManual excerpt ## > > > > — Bruce > > _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ > > > > > >> On Feb 20, 2023, at 12:07 PM, Media Mouth <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So a number of questions: >> - Out of curiosity, what is BBEdit really doing when it detects the >> compression in the XML file. Which decompression technique? Is it using an >> auto-detect technique? Or something along the lines of gunzip? >> > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature > request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" > rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: > <https://twitter.com/bbedit> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/2A7DB49A-8F44-45D6-A262-CE005198621E%40cruzio.com. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/4108A16B-1088-4768-91B7-054AFE3E7B8D%40gmail.com.
