On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:21:26PM -0700, Brett wrote: > 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? >
They are already uncompressed by a greedy broswer but the name was not changed to reflect this. It is normaly a configuration issue of the webserver telling the browser to uncompress on the fly. -- :wq Claudio
