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