From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Cc: christophe@saout.de
Subject: [dm-crypt] Re2: reading archives
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 01:31:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100304003116.GA1196@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100303235312.GA603@tansi.org>
Ok, I looked a bit closer. It seems this is compressed
on-the-fly and corrupted on server side. Strangely
the corruption seems to be a windows thing or at least
browser dependent. I got suspicuous after I got two
different sized files with Opera and Firefox. On
Linux I downloaded with wget for yet another size.
After a bit of messing around, I have it now:
Under Windows the files get compressed with gzip
twice! Possibly some terminally stupid, over-helpful
automatisation that decided to make sure it is a
gzip'ed file.
Temporary workaround for Windows:
Decompress, rename to name.gz and decompress again.
You may also have to click through a folder hierachy
(that I had no idea gzip could support).
Admin of the archive cc'ed, just in case.
Arno
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 12:53:12AM +0100, Arno Wagner wrote:
> I tried this on Linux, silmply gunzip and it works.
>
> I also tried it with 7zip on Windows, and it seems it
> does not unzip, an the file size stays the same.
> Same with the gzip Windows binary from
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm
>
> Seems like a bug in the gzip library on Windows.
>
> I have sent a bug-report to support@gzip.org
>
> Arno
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:32:00PM -0500, Scott Castaline wrote:
> > Probably a dumb question, but how does one read the unpacked files? They
> > are named as .txt files but text editors can't open them and from a
> > gnome-terminal if you cat the file it looks like a binary file. What do
> > I need to read them?
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-03 22:32 [dm-crypt] reading archives Scott Castaline
2010-03-03 23:53 ` Arno Wagner
2010-03-04 0:31 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
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