RE: [cobalt-developers] restoring from qube2 backup

[John Coonrod <jc@xxxxxxx>]

Jonas: 
see below:
===== Original Message from cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx at 3/20/00 
5:13 am
>hi,
>
>At 17.03.00 14:51, you wrote:
>>1. I have a 7 meg .qub file I'm trying to restore on a windows machine.
>>2. I tried the perl script on it, and it didn't work - it left a 504 byte
>>output.tar.gz and exited with no message.
>
>that's just what it should do - strip all headers, and leave an out.tar.gz
>that you can unpack with tar -xzvf.

well, no, a 504 byte file is not what should be left from 7 meg.
>
>>3. I tried stripping off the header in a copy of the pfe32 editor - but
>>winzip didn't like the resulting .tar.gz file.
>
>hmmm... normally it works fine that way. maybe your ftp-client guessed that
>the .qub file is an ascii-file because its first lines are text (it isn't,
>choose "binary" manually). or there is the same problem like on older
>raq2/3 (the box transferred the backup archive in ascii mode in some
>cases). or the download is just broken. or pfe32 saved the file in ascii
>mode. or... many possibilities. as i said, normally it works fine. maybe
>you can try to unpack it directly with gunzip instead of using winzip?

Do you mean that gunzip can ignore the text headers that are on the file and 
can directly unzip the qub file?
Is there a gunzip for windows I could find somewhere?

>
>regards, jonas.
>
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