Re: Reading files on ground mirror

[Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Jan 25, 5:38 am, sc...@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)
wrote:
> In article <66766cf5-7587-4a17-a59b-3d95529ec...@s27g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
>
> Polymorph  <polymorp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >On Jan 24, 1:47 pm, Smohn Jith <craigfakem...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >BluPhoenyx wrote:
> >> Smohn Jith wrote:
> >>> There's a bunch of files on apple2.org.za mirrors that don't seem to
> >>> be any kind of readable format.  I'm particularly interested in these:
>
> >>>http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/MiscInfo/Prog...
>
> >> These files are news group posts. I am able to view them in Midnight
> >> Commander in Linux.
>
> >I downloaded those files and yes, they are simply text files.
>
> Actually, they're gzipped text files; you'll need to decompress them first.
> It doesn't help that they're missing the .gz extension that would identify
> them as such.  For Windows, most recent archiving programs handle gzip; for
> Linux and Mac OS X, gzip and gunzip should both be available at the command
> line.
>
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Hmm...strange...my browser at work (Maxthon) downloaded the files as
text files. Maybe it has auto unzip?? I don't know, but I rechecked
the files just now, and they are plain text - they opened in WordPad
with no problems. Sorry if I provided any misleading info though.

cheers,
-p