From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Milan P. Stanic" Subject: Re: Windows like uncompress for linux . Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 00:37:39 +0100 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021116233739.GA2076@dl.oss.co.yu> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20021117005431.00b565d8@mail.tumsan.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 06:13:50PM -0500, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > Hello freddie , Thank you for the response . But no it is not > zip'd/gzip'd/b2zip'd . It is windows/dos compressed . > 'file *.tx_' says ': data' . The file itself is not readable > except by binary readers/editors . I have tried all of the above > compression tools . > > Fyi , under dos (which I do not have here) try typing > 'compress' . There is (of course) a uncompress . Note in the > above the file extension . When uncompressed the extension will > be .txt . Tnx , JimL Did you tried cabextract? It unpacks so called cabinet files (.cab extension), and maybe it can help. Milan