[nos-bbs] How open *.txt.gz files of the list

[Miguel Bahi Cruz]

Yes, it works ok, with this double decompresion.thanks!!!

> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 17:13:24 -0400
> From: n2jpq at arrl.net
> To: nos-bbs at tapr.org
> Subject: Re: [nos-bbs] How open *.txt.gz files of the list
> 
> This is a double gzipped file (why? I do not know. but it is)
> 
> Use gunzip on the first file -- 2013-October.txt.gz
> 
> This will result in the following file -- 2013-October.txt
> 
> Which is itself a gzipped file, so rename the file to -- 2013-October.gz
> 
> Then gunzip the new file and you will get - 2013-October
> 
> Which is a plain text file
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Rick
> N2JPQ
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Bob Tenty <bobtenty at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I used gedit and you will get a warning that there was a problem
> > with opening the text file because of invalid characters but it opened
> > it anyhow with Character encoding UTF-8 and did give you the option
> > to retry it with another character encoding Western (ISO-8859-15)
> > but the text is nonsense with both encodings.
> >
> > I tried it also with nano and the "converted from a MAC format" is by that
> > program.
> >
> > I just emailed WA7NWP about it who is the administrator of that list.
> >
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Bob VE3TOK
> >
> >
> > On 13-10-31 01:07 PM, Miguel Bahi Cruz wrote:
> >
> > ok, Bob, What text reader are you using?
> >
> > I try with gedit and open office writer with no success.
> >
> > With gedit I have warning but only displays, "detect auto char conversion"
> > and don't works, and in the option of charsets, don't appear mac option.
> >
> > With office writer, I have mac chars , but it don't reads ok.
> >
> > 73
> >
> > ________________________________
> > Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:26:43 -0400
> > From: bobtenty at gmail.com
> > To: nos-bbs at tapr.org
> > Subject: Re: [nos-bbs] How open *.txt.gz files of the list
> >
> > Hi Miguel,
> >
> > I have exactly the same problem, it looks like the character encoding, can't
> > read them automatically.
> > in my browsers.
> > I also downloaded one of the (g) zipped archived files  and I can correctly
> > unzip it with gunzip
> > but the text is a mess.
> > I only get a warning "converted from a MAC format" if I open the resulting
> > .txt file , hmm and this is
> > all in Ubuntu.
> > (The old MAC format way before OS X  used CR as line breaks)
> > Same happens with the linux list at their site.
> > Strange as TAPR uses Debian at their server.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Bob VE3TOK
> >
> > On 13-10-28 06:29 AM, Miguel Bahi Cruz wrote:
> >
> > hi, I want read the archives of the mailing list, and can't not open this.
> >
> > I try in windows with winrar, it extracts the files,  but , the txt file is
> > only a collection of a "Chinese" characters.
> > I try in Ubuntu with the file roller utility, and the result is the same.
> >
> > Help Please.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
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