Russian Dolls

[lukas]

WTF ^^

how did the others done this level? I wanted to create a script but my favourite programm said
that the file is not default-conform; So I did it complete manually and it takes very long

So I think that I haven't say too much

[soeschmid]

Hi Lukas,

wow, i'd never have done this by hand...
I would have given up very early.

I used a batch-File in windows to run winrar in a loop.
The most difficult of this work was reading the manual of winrar for possible parameters

[brazzy]

I used a bash shell script, and it took several minutes - I didn't count iterations, but it must have been hundreds! I can't imagine doing that manually.

[m!nus]

I used a PHP script and it took less than a second. There are 999 iterations, not that much.

[lukas]

I also tried per winrar, but winrar say to: "The file is not an archive or maybe corrupt"

and I dont take the first one, because he always say its corrupt, I take the fourth or so.

[macdachs]

Just used GZIP and a Batch-File

:start
gzip.exe -d doll.gz
ren doll doll.gz
goto start

Works fine for me under 5 minutes

[ImreNagy]

easy:
open with 7z mark the [content] and fix the enter key with a pen. 2 minutes later you have the answer.

[Belriel]

I also used PHP and then had the answer in an instant, most time I spent finding out the right PHP functions and how they work as the gzip library is not very well documented and some of the functions mentioned are not even present in the current release.

[m!nus]

i used gzinflate() and always split off the first 10 bytes (header). how did you do it?

[Belriel]

I used gzdecode(), but since this function seems to be not yet part of PHP, I used the function I found in the user contributed notes.

[yes-man]

Used one bash line.
for ((i=1; i<20000; i++)) do gzip -d doll.gzip && move doll doll.gzip done

[aurora]

i've written a file identifier for work a while back. so this was the first tool ich used with doll.bin -- than it was pretty easy: gunzip as long as the file identifier reported 'application/gzip' as filetype.

[masgo]

i used 7-zip for windows and kept the enter button pressed for ~one minute ...

[misterjack]

mv doll.bin doll.gz && watch -n 0 "gunzip doll.gz && mv doll doll.gz"

At least: cat doll

[Chocoholic]

i've written a file identifier for work a while back. so this was the first tool ich used with doll.bin -- than it was pretty easy: gunzip as long as the file identifier reported 'application/gzip' as filetype.

That already exists, it's called "file" in unix. ;-)

I also used just one line of bash code. Long live coLinux! :-)

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while file doll.gz | grep gzip; do gunzip doll.gz; mv doll doll.gz; done