[GWhere-discussion] re:What format is the catalog file? (Perl Whore)

[jagerhans]

the  'file' command reports that movies-mp3_catalog-latest.ctg is:  gzip compressed data, from Unix, max speed

but this info is pitifully wrong since apart from the header 1f 0b 08 00 it looks pretty much like an ascii text file. i think that you can't access it because of file permissions. check if it's readable or else do chmod 744 on the file and open it with vi .