On 26/08/2009 5:47 AM, Matt Stiles wrote: > Am I losing my mind, or is there something wrong with the bin.gz file on the > download page? I've downloaded it several times, but I can't get it to open > completely using Stuffit or the Mac archive utility. It appears to open, but > it just spits out another compressed file, over and over -- like a cruel > Matryoshka doll on my desktop. > > The file in question: http://www.sqlite.org/sqlite3-3.6.17-osx-x86.bin.gz
I can open this on Windows XP with the "7-Zip" 3rd-party utility. As expected of a foo.bin.gz file, it decompresses to a foo.bin file. 7zip can even open that; it says there are a bunch of __TEXT__ things, some __DATA__ things, and 2 __IMPORT__ things ... looks superficially not unlike an executable to me. Doesn't the Mac OS have a "gunzip" program? I have one from the mingw32 project or similar collection of Windows ports of *x programs: C:\installers>gunzip -l sqlite3-3.6.17-osx-x86.bin.gz compressed uncompr. ratio uncompressed_name 258707 510012 49.2% sqlite3-3.6.17-osx-x86.bin C:\installers>gunzip -tv sqlite3-3.6.17-osx-x86.bin.gz sqlite3-3.6.17-osx-x86.bin.gz: OK C:\installers>gunzip -V gunzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93) Compilation options: DIRENT SYS_UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H NO_CHOWN PROTO ASMV So that's two independent witnesses to the file on the website being an OK gzip file, and one that the inner file appears to be an uncompressed executable. How did you obtain it -- http or ftp? Have you checked the compressed file size (I have 258707 (see above))? What version of OS X are you running? _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users