Phantom bill

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Mon Aug 23 13:04:35 EDT 2010


On Monday 23 August 2010, Wouter van Marle wrote:
> On 23 Aug 10, at 18:32, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Maf. King wrote:
> >> Derek may want to chime in with a good reason not to do this (other
> >> than it
> >> is  unsupported...)
> >
> > work on a backup copy.
> 
> Well of course :) After making a backup of that one, moving everything
> to another computer, disconnecting that from the network, and placing
> it an a blast proof bunker just in case everything explodes in my face
> when restarting.
> 
> Maf, thanks for the hint, going to try tomorrow. Actually I tried to
> gunzip before but it was not recognised or so. I guessed it's
> compressed as that's quite common practice and makes sense.
> 
gunzip expects a .gz extension on the file it should unzip. It's part of the 
unzip procedure to remove this extension. If no extension is there, gunzip 
doesn't know what to call the unzipped file and will refuse to run. That's 
probably why it didn't work for you.

Geert


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