A dumb question on gunzip

[-dan d.]

Why not just try downloading the html file in its source form, renaming it 
with the html encoding visible and save it with a htm or html extension?

On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, John J. Boyer wrote:

> As regards my dumb question, I asked on the lynx development list. The
> reply was that the problem was probably a server bug. The html file is
> probably stored uncompressed and compressed on the fly, incorrectly or
> at least not the way gunzip expects it.
>
> John
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 01:03:55PM +0200, Anders Holmberg wrote:
>> Hi!
>> Now to my dum question.
>> How would one know the exact link for a file to download from with Wget?
>> I can google it of course but i ask here first.
>> Thanks.
>> /A
>>> On 14 Aug 2016, at 07:12, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Probably the whole file didn't download and without that -c switch wget would not have continued trying to download if it got disconnected.
>>>
>>> On Sat, 13 Aug 2016, Tim Chase wrote:
>>>
>>>> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2016 20:59:47
>>>> From: Tim Chase <blinux.list at thechases.com>
>>>> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com>
>>>> To: John J. Boyer <john.boyer at abilitiessoft.org>
>>>> Cc: blinux-list at redhat.com
>>>> Subject: Re: A dumb question on gunzip
>>>> On August 13, 2016, John J. Boyer wrote:
>>>>> I'm trying to unzip the Cygwin User Guide located at the link "One
>>>>> large compressed html file". However, when I download the file and
>>>>> type gunzip filename
>>>>> I get garbage. The man page doesn't enlighten me. So please answer
>>>>> this dumb question: how do i get a good html file?
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure what happened to your file, but I just performed the
>>>> following two commands:
>>>>
>>>> wget -c https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net-nochunks.html.gz
>>>> unzip cygwin-ug-net-nochunks.html.gz
>>>>
>>>> and was left with a "cygwin-ug-net-nochunks.html" file in the
>>>> directory that I could browse with any of multiple browsers.
>>>>
>>>> -tim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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