Re: gzip file ftp'ed as ascii...

Brian Raiter wrote: 
Is this or an equivalent gzip fixer available anywhere?

I've a 750M file, a .tar.gz on linux.

fixgz or ftp'ing as ascii again don't help.

There are 11097 CR/LF pairs in the file... 


Did you ftp as ascii from MS to Unix, or from Unix to MS? The former
would probably be nearly impossible to fix; the latter might be
salvaged by running it through the following Perl program:

  perl -i.bak -pe 's/\r\n/\n/g' munged.tar.gz

You mention ftping as ascii again didn't help -- did you try ftping in
the opposite direction as the first time?


The transfer was ftp, accidentally in ascii mode, from Linux Mandrake
8.0 to Linux Debian 1:3.3.5-12.

I've been doing some further experiments.

Whenever the byte pair 0D 00 appears in my test source file, the destination file only has OD. The ftp process has deleted the trailing 00.

To restore this file I need to know if there is enough information in
the gzip format to detect which OD bytes need the trailing 00 adding back.

Best Wishes,
James

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"Be excellent to each other", Bill & Ted
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