.gz and archived fanfics

[Delos Theta]

I've downloaded some fanfics from
ftp://ftp.cs.ubc.ca/pub/archive/anime-fan-works/ with the .gz extention. Now
my zip utility (Ultimatezip) handles GZIP files, but many of the files look
like they're unzipping though there is no unzipped file when done. I
presume that means the files are corrupted, but since I admit that I'm not
the brightest bulb on the tree, I wonder if anyone can tell me if I might be
doing something wrong?
Thanks.

[Brian Edmonds]

"Delos Theta" <tangled@mindspring.com> writes:
> I presume that means the files are corrupted, but since I admit that
> I'm not the brightest bulb on the tree, I wonder if anyone can tell me
> if I might be doing something wrong? Thanks.

There are no corrupted files in the archive itself (that I am aware of).
One possible explanation might be that you are downloading them in ascii
mode rather than binary mode. On most non-Unix systems, downloading gz
files in ascii will almost certainly corrupt them.

Brian.

[Delos Theta]

>
> There are no corrupted files in the archive itself (that I am aware of).
> One possible explanation might be that you are downloading them in ascii
> mode rather than binary mode. On most non-Unix systems, downloading gz
> files in ascii will almost certainly corrupt them.
>
> Brian.

Thank you Brian. I'm still pulling out valuable hair as I can't get my 2 FTP
clients (LeechFTP and WS_Ftp) to work downloading these. I'm obviously in
over my head, but you have no doubt set me in the right direction. Thanks.

[Benjamin Goldberg]

Delos Theta wrote:
>
> I've downloaded some fanfics from
> ftp://ftp.cs.ubc.ca/pub/archive/anime-fan-works/ with the .gz
> extention. Now my zip utility (Ultimatezip) handles GZIP files, but
> many of the files look like they're unzipping though there is no
> unzipped file when done. I presume that means the files are
> corrupted, but since I admit that I'm not the brightest bulb on the
> tree, I wonder if anyone can tell me if I might be doing something
> wrong?

I've no idea why you're having problems with the downloaded .gz files,
but there is a hidden feature of ftp.cs.ubc.ca : If you request a path
with the same name as a .gz file, but without the .gz, the ftp server
will magically gunzip it for you, and send you the plain text file.

For example (picking the first file in .../Ranma/) : If you were to
download:

ftp://ftp.cs.ubc.ca/pub/archive/anime-fan-works/Ranma/ranma.007

You'll get it, even though the filename is listed as ranma.007.gz.

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