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It's not to argue about intricacies of the file conversion ( I know little here),
but just to say that WinZip 7.0 opened easily 0001324.tar.gz file I downloaded from
http://xxx.lpthe.jussieu.fr/abs/cond-mat/0001324 . It's a paper on "...the sign of the
variations or increments of uncorrelated times series are predictable with a remarkably
high success probability of 75% for symmetric sign distributions. The origin of this
paradoxical result is explained in details. We also present some tests on synthetic,
financial and global temperature time series" . The article's format requires TEX
compiler to be read properly, but you can get the idea viewing it as *.txt file as well.
Cheers, Vitaly
"A.J. Maas" wrote:
> If I remember correctly from my contacts with the Dow Jones DGJI download group a few years ago,
> then the file
> filename.tar.gz
> is a gnu compressed gz-format "mother of all files" file that holds a container file
> filename.tar
> which is a <simular to zip-format> based container file(virtual folder).
>
> WinZip will not enable you to unzip the <tar container file> packed in the gz-file directly
> nor the unzipped <tar container file> directly.
> The gz file only holds some info on the contents tho, and is not ever an important file
> nor was it or is it an important file format.
>
> By deleting the extension
> .gz
> the container file
> filename.tar
> remains, and this file format can then <indirectly> be handled by WinZip as a plain zipped file.
>
> I think what I did then was just renaming the file
> filename.tar
> to
> filename.zip
> and was then able to have WinZip(and the old DOS PKZip) to deal with the file and its further
> contents, like is common when using WinZip.
>
> Best is to stay the hell away from all this Unix stuff, since it's usage everywhere is not concistant
> and cumbersome in usage.
> The Dow Jones Co. tho, being an old solid firm, still uses the original intended capabilities and has
> stuck to this 1960's file formatting (which on some "old" mainframes is still common).
> I also was told then to use the gnu-unzip utility, but never got it to do what it was intended for, it
> would blundly unzip all files into one folder, not maintaining the folder-structure. I couldn't ever be
> bothered with finding out its illogic parameters structure, so was very pleased with WinZip when it
> did what it was required to do:
> have a bunch of ASCII files zipped into+scattered over the immense DGJI folder's-structure.
>
> .ps
> PostScript(ps) files are files written in machine language, (some still use the PRN extension) that
> apart from the to be printed information also holds all the instructions for the printer
> (layout, size, fonts, pageformat, pagebreaks etc.) and ps files require a Post-script printer driver
> to be installed, files send to it and to be able to print ofcourse a postscript capable printer
> (usualy a printer that is compatible to networks).
>
> .pdf
> PDF files are compressed RTF files creatable in a not-password protected RTF environment.
> Since it is propriety(Adobe) it requires a seperate further useless progarm(editor).
> Sort of like precreated visable postscript files, useless to the average user, and cumbersome to
> work with for professionals. It is mainly used for publishing what many think is unalterable data,
> which is not the case. But for libraries etc I suppose a sort of usable product.
>
> Other than that, both file formats are not much used, and a pain in the a... to look at(ps) and to
> work with(pdf) or to be used for other stuff(ps+pdf).
>
> Regards,
> Ton Maas
> ms-irb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Dismiss the ".nospam" bit (including the dot) when replying.
> Homepage http://home.planet.nl/~anthmaas
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walter Lake" <wlake@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: zaterdag 22 juli 2000 15:20
> Subject: Re: E Waves etc
>
> Hi Christian
>
> Have forwarded the file to you. It opens in Ghost Script easly.
>
> Anyone who wants it can ask Christian or myself for it. It's 171KB and too
> big for the List.
>
> For others: here is more general info from Ingber's site re different
> utilities and file procedures. I'm sure that Ton has a collection of
> information in his amazing library. Thanks Ton for your "Bands" post.
>
> Best regards
>
> Walter
>
> =============================
>
> http://www.ingber.com/Z_gz_ps_tar_shar.txt
> ftp://ftp.ingber.com/Z_gz_ps_tar_shar.txt
>
> Welcome to
> Lester Ingber's Archive
> http://www.ingber.com/
> ftp://ftp.ingber.com
> http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~ingber/ (mirror homepage)
>
> If you have requested a UNIX-compressed file of type
> FILE.Z
> these files have been converted to gzip-compressed files of type
> FILE.gz
> so please retry your download using this modification.
>
> To download gzip for any operating system (now standard on most
> systems) go to
> http://www.gzip.org
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/gzip.html
> gzip (`gunzip` or `gzip -d`) also will expand UNIX-compressed and
> zip-compressed files (not archives), i.e., FILE.gz, FILE.Z, and
> FILE.zip files.
>
> After decompressing, you will be left with a file like
> file.ps
> which is a PostScript file, or
> file.tar
> which is a tar file, or
> file.shar
> which is a shar file, or
> file.txt
> which is a simple ASCII text file.
>
> A PostScript utility is required to view or print a file.ps that is
> left. To download PostScript viewers or tools for any operating system
> go to
> http://www.aladdin.com
> http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html
>
> The tar utility expands file.tar into a directory of files. ON UNIX
> systems you can simply use `tar xf file.tar` or `tar -xf file.tar`. To
> download the tar utility for any operating system go to
> http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html
>
> The shar utility expands file.shar into a directory of files. On UNIX
> systems you can simply use `sh file.shar`. To download the shar
> utility for any operating system go to
> http://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/sharutils.html
>
> The zip utility expands file.zip into a file or a directory of files,
> depending on how file.zip was prepared. To download the zip utility
> for any operating system go to
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/section-2.html
>
> More information and direct links to these codes are given in
> http://www.ingber.com/index_utils.html
> ftp://ftp.ingber.com/UTILS.DIR/00index_utils
>
> Thanks.
>
> Lester <ingber@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christian Baude" <BAUDECB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 10:07 PM
> Subject: Re: E Waves etc
>
> | On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:04:00 -0500, you wrote:
> |
> | > Walter:
> | >
> | > I was unable to open this file in either the tar or pdf formats.
> | > any suggestions?
> |
> | > Let me report some recent discussions at yats@xxxxxxxxxxx
> | > Alex Plank mentioned a very interesting article from Sornette
> | > (http://xxx.lpthe.jussieu.fr/abs/cond-mat/0001324)
> |
> | I d/l'ed the file, and it appears to be corrupted (I tried the gz, ps
> | format).
> |
> | -÷ Chris ß ÷-
> |
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