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From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] bunzip2 problem
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:34:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a05031207346fbb1ad7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <901a05bc93ca1c6efa4b7a9ea26436c7@terzarima.net>

there is a program on unix called bzip2recover
which may or may not be helpful in getting some
of your data back.  you can build it on plan9 with
cd /sys/src/cmd/bzip2; mk 8.bzip2recover.

russ


On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:36:28 +0000, Charles Forsyth
<forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
>


  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-12 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-12 12:24 Gregory Pavelcak
2005-03-12 12:36 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-03-12 15:34   ` Russ Cox [this message]
2005-03-13  9:09   ` Steve Simon

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