Re: tlug: Compressed gzip files

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

>>>>> "Neil" == Neil Booth <NeilB@example.com> writes:

    Neil> Someone posted the following to the kernel mailing list.
    Neil> begin 664 patch129av1.tar.gz
    Neil> M'XL(`!H)6#8``^Q<>W/C-I+/O_:GP&5263M^B=33SDXJ%$E)C/DR2?DQ5U<L
    Neil> MCD3;S$BB5J+\J-W[[M<`11$@example.com=DS&T\V5\-*1F9WH_%J-!I0_Q2,HN-1/+N-
    Neil> M[KY[LT>HU5J-!OH.X:=6^$1"LRG4$&JUQ&:[56NW6T`2!+']':J]79/R9[5,

    Neil> [snip]

    Neil> How does one unzip it? I've tried pasting the garbage into a
    Neil> new file, and applying gzip to it, but gzip complained it
    Neil> wasn't a zipped file. I suspect there's some filter it needs
    Neil> to go through first.

Its uuencoded. Take everything between the "begin" and "end" and save
it to a file.

Then run:

	uudecode file

That should give you patch129av1.tar.gz.

Regards,

	Andy



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