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Article #21Re: UUCP and gunzip
From: Florian Lohoff
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 00:39
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 00:39
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On Tue 1-Aug-1995 16:20 , Bill Seymour wrote:
BS> I'm using gunzip to extract my news batches, since the site
BS> I'm getting my feed from recently switched to 16 bit compression.
BS> The problem is that my system is now crashing several time a day. :-(
BS> It looks like the crashes happen when a uuxqt session is going full
BS> swing during a uucico session. I can easily lock out multiple sessions
BS> spawned from the same phone line, but I've got three dialup lines that
BS> people are getting feeds from, so it's very common to have things
BS> 'doubled up' like this. Does anyone have a better way of keeping things
BS> stable? Am I correct in assuming it's a gunzip problem? If it were just
BS> a simple crash, it wouldn't be too bad, but it tends to leave the UUCP:
BS> partition unvalidated, and it takes a *long* time to validate... (200M
BS> runs about 85% full, with the oldest file at about 4 days old...)
BS> --
This is a problem of GnuZip. My GnuZip crashes sometimes depacking. I think
this is a problem of the GnuZip portation to Amiga. ( I am using 1.2.4 )
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!dataland.owl.de!flohoff From: flohoff@dataland.owl.de (Florian Lohoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.uucp Subject: Re: UUCP and gunzip Message-ID: <flohoff.02yw@dataland.owl.de> Date: 4 Aug 95 01:39:37 CET