Copy of STD39 Internet Standard (BBN Report 1822)

From: der Mouse <mouse_at_Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
Date: Sun Dec 7 15:02:44 2003

>>> ftp.univ-angers.fr/pub2/rfc/rfc/std/std39.txt.gz
>> What's unreadable about it? It's an ordinary text file, compressed
>> with gzip.

Not quite.

> FWIW, I also got unreadable cruft when I used WinZip to extract
> std39.txt.

% ftp ftp.univ-angers.fr
...fetch the file...
% file std39.txt.gz
std39.txt.gz: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Mon Aug 11 23:47:54 2003, max compression, os: Unix
% gunzip < std39.tzt.gz > std39.txt
% file std39.txt
std39.txt: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Mon Aug 11 22:10:03 2003, max compression, os: Unix
% gunzip < std39.txt > std39.txt.bis

_That_ finally gives a real text file. It's not a text file compressed
with gzip; it's a text file "compressed" _twice_ with gzip. (I use the
quotes because the second gzipping actually enlarges the file.)

And yes, it's RFC903.

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