From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <901a05bc93ca1c6efa4b7a9ea26436c7@terzarima.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] bunzip2 problem From: Charles Forsyth Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:36:28 +0000 In-Reply-To: <23ade4b72e69e0a7b6eaf67fe52fbffd@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 238efc00-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 i can't advise about the decompression failure, but you get the strange messages because bunzip2 uses %r but the error was an internal one, and %r prints the last system error for the process, which was the shell exec searching . before /bin for a suitable bunzip2 when you invoked it. thus, the text after ``can't write...:'' isn't relevant to the underlying problem.