Repairing kword documents (solved)

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manleyd · Post by **manleyd** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:31 pm

I have been trying to fix some old (2-4 years) kword documents that can no longer be opened with my current version of kword - 1.4.2-r6.

kword documents consist of two tared and gzipped xml files called documentinfo.xml and maindoc.xml. By fiddling with maindoc.xml I have had some success opening some of the problem files. However a few will not even unzip:

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manleyd~/tmp> mv opeland.kwd copeland.kwd.gz
manleyd~/tmp> gunzip copeland.kwd.gz
gunzip: copeland.kwd.gz has more than one entry -- unchanged
manleyd~/tmp>

This error message seems to be undocumented. I can't find any information on the gzip web site either. Does anyone know what it means?

karnesky · Post by **karnesky** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 11:12 pm

gunzip cannot handle files compressed with zip that have more than one member.

emerge unzip
unzip copeland.kwd.gz

manleyd · Post by **manleyd** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 3:34 am

Thanks. unzip handled the file OK.