[Coco] Opening the Coco Archives

[Tim Fadden]

Paul Fitch wrote:
> Well I guess I'm to trusting<g>. I never even considered just trying to use
> notepad/wordpad to open them.. Thanks. 
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com 
>> [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Tim Fadden
>> Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 12:00 PM
>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] Opening the Coco Archives
>>
>> All,
>>
>> Nope winrar does not work.  I believe these are just straight 
>> text files, not gzip'd They have a gz extension on them, but 
>> no unzipper I have tried recognizes them.  They do open just 
>> fine in a TEXT reader! or with more, cat, etc on a unix box.  
>> If you manually just remove the .gz and leave them a .txt you 
>> will be set to go.
>>
>> P.S. I did not try every single one, but I did try more than 
>> 10 throughout the selection.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> Bill Cousert wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm pretty certain winrar can handle .gz files.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Paul Fitch <pfitchjr at bellsouth.net>
>>> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>> Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2009 8:42:04 AM
>>> Subject: [Coco] Opening the Coco Archives
>>>
>>> What software do I use to open the archive files located at:
>>>
>>> http://five.pairlist.net/pipermail/coco/
>>>
>>> The files are in a "YEAR-MONTH.txt.gz" form when 
>>>       
>> downloaded, and gzip, 
>>     
>>> 7-zip, winzip, winace are stumped when I try to open one.
>>>
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Look for textpad, or notepad++  These files are in unix format, and do 
not look correct with notepad/dos apps.  The two I mentioned displays 
them properly. There are many others out there also.  You can probably 
find utilities to change from/to unix/dos end-of-line chars.

Tim