GnuCash file not viewable

[Maf. King]

On Monday 08 March 2010 18:59:52 am65 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to have a view to the GnuCash main file. My Ubuntu says it is
> a zipped file, but when I try to uncompress it raises an error and does
> nothing.
>
> I wanted to have a view to the XML to check if I could somehow load the
> data into a relational database, but I can't open the view as text I think
> that is a bit complicated.
>
> Thanks

Hi,

I thought that the GC datafile was compressed with GZ rather than ZIP 
compression.

Does the command gunzip do any better than unzip?

Maf.