[cobalt-users] decoding .raq files

["Karl Gray" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To get at the gz file you need to run a script called.
This will give you .tar.gz file which you can extract in
the usual way.
ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/users/jeffb/scripts/striphead.pl

We have used this with success on files that timed out on upload >3GB
1) uploaded file
2) ran script on it.
3) extracted relevent files.

Even though we have used it succesfully if you have any doubts please
contact Cobalt support first.

Regards Karl

>  I have an RAQ3. I made some backups as admin. When I tried to restore
them
> things went pear shaped. I would now be happier being able to just extract
> the files I need (some mail and bulletin board postings) and put them back
> myself via ftp and telnet. Is there a method for me to be able to extract
> the files I need from a .raq archive? I recon that you can probably
extract
> the binary portion of the archive and then gunzip it, but I'm unsure. Any
> ideas?