Using FTP rescue

[Paul Thompson]

Sorry Ralph do not have access to Linux machine locally. If it is difficult
to upload  file with gz extension on ftp site can ask around at work - but
most people are windows and not very adventurous.

Best regards

Paul T


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Siemsen" <ralphs at netwinder.org>
To: "Paul Thompson" <paulfthompson at supanet.com>
Cc: <netwinder at netwinder.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: Using FTP rescue


> Paul Thompson wrote:
> > FTPrescue will not download it it just reports file error or  somesuch
> > error. The problem is not the way I am using ftprescue as I have already
> > used to download and install old images. I assume that ftprescue was
> > written before .bz2 was thought of.
>
> Yes that is most certainly it.  The simplest solution is to convert it
> from bz2 to gz.  If you have another linux machine, just get the file
> there and do:
>
> bunzip2 base-nw9.tar.bz2
> (this will drop the bz2 suffix)
> gzip base-nw9.tar
> (this will produce .gz extension)
>
> Then proceed as before.  If you have problems doing this, I can probably
> arrange to get a .gz version on the ftp site; disk space is a lot
> cheaper these days :)
>
> I'll also put this on the list of things to fix in future rescue.tar.gz
>
> -R
>