Ok, I looked a bit closer. It seems this is compressed on-the-fly and corrupted on server side. Strangely the corruption seems to be a windows thing or at least browser dependent. I got suspicuous after I got two different sized files with Opera and Firefox. On Linux I downloaded with wget for yet another size. After a bit of messing around, I have it now: Under Windows the files get compressed with gzip twice! Possibly some terminally stupid, over-helpful automatisation that decided to make sure it is a gzip'ed file. Temporary workaround for Windows: Decompress, rename to name.gz and decompress again. You may also have to click through a folder hierachy (that I had no idea gzip could support). Admin of the archive cc'ed, just in case. Arno On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 12:53:12AM +0100, Arno Wagner wrote: > I tried this on Linux, silmply gunzip and it works. > > I also tried it with 7zip on Windows, and it seems it > does not unzip, an the file size stays the same. > Same with the gzip Windows binary from > http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm > > Seems like a bug in the gzip library on Windows. > > I have sent a bug-report to support@xxxxxxxx > > Arno > > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:32:00PM -0500, Scott Castaline wrote: > > Probably a dumb question, but how does one read the unpacked files? They > > are named as .txt files but text editors can't open them and from a > > gnome-terminal if you cat the file it looks like a binary file. What do > > I need to read them? > > _______________________________________________ > > dm-crypt mailing list > > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt > > > > -- > Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx > GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F > ---- > Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans > > If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of > "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier > _______________________________________________ > dm-crypt mailing list > dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx > http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt > -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
