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In article <D0BGKF.2qr@telly.on.ca>, Evan Leibovitch <evan@telly.on.ca> wrote:
>What I've found is that a significant amount of incoming news batches are
>garbled. Brought over compressed, they won't uncompress cleanly; when it's
>forced, the first half of each batch looks fine, but as one goes further and
>further in the file it becomes more and more garbled until it's unreadable.

I've run into exactly this sort of thing, frequently, with older versions
of gzip, although you say you're running good old compress, so that
_shouldn't_ be the problem.

You could isolate the problem by for example uucp'ing a large file back and
forth and seeing if cmp shows any differences, or by compressing a large
file on the sending system, transferring it by ftp or tape, uncompressing,
and seeing if the end result has changed.

Good luck.
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