Brad Allen wrote:

> I didn't have the same problem with the first two I tried decompressing:
> 
> 2010-November.txt.gz.gz
> 2010-October.txt.gz.gz
> 
> Oddly, my Chrome browser on Mac added an extra .gz at the end. The Mac
> GUI had no problem decompressing into plain text which appeared to be
> non-scrambled.
> 
> I tried using the command line "tar" to decompress them but it appears
> they are not "tar" archives. When I tried gunzip I saw the garbled
> text, which must be the same thing you saw. Weird.

Heh, the files appear to be doubly compressed with gzip so depending on
your shell, window manager or what-have-you the files may seem to be
garbled or not. Using the 'file' command will show their proper types
though (that's how I figured out they were a .gz inside a .gz).

-- 
Dariusz Suchojad
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