25 Mar
2010
25 Mar
'10
12:30 p.m.
I have to apologize. It turns out that I was working with a symlink to a file in a shared directory, and another user had bunzipped those files, keeping the same name (to start with, the compressed files didn't have a .bz2 suffix - don't ask me why). The copy in my laptop was made before that happened, so there all was fine. Cherry on the cake: recently I was viewing the files with bzless instead of bzcat - which, I've now realized, behaves like less if the file is plain text. Well, that's embarassing (and somewhat irritating, as I've spent a bunch of hours trying to figure out what was going on). Thanks for trying to help. I'll do my best to avoid posting noise again. Nicola