Re: Problem solved

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

Boris <address@hidden> wrote:

> It was probably Windows that did something wrong, as Hans-Bernhard
> already supposed.

Just to clarify this: it's not Windows that did that, it was Linux.
The files were broken before when they were written to the Windows
filesystem, long before you ran any part of Windows again.  

More precisely the reason is the way the administrator of that Linux
box (read: you, or maybe your distribution maker, whose default
choices you adopted), decided to set up the options for mounting the
Windows filesytems.  Had you mounted these filesystems in 'binary'
mode, all would have worked nicely.  It might still have worked if you
had chosen 'auto' and bz2 was on its list of knwon binary file
extensions --- alas, as of the manpage I'm looking at, it isn't.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (address@hidden)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.