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In article <DCn42M.AM0@agora.rdrop.com> billsey@agora.rdrop.com (Bill Seymour) writes:
>	I'm using gunzip to extract my news batches, since the site
> I'm getting my feed from recently switched to 16 bit compression.
> The problem is that my system is now crashing several time a day. :-(

Use a different version of gzip.

> It looks like the crashes happen when a uuxqt session is going full
> swing during a uucico session. I can easily lock out multiple sessions
> spawned from the same phone line, but I've got three dialup lines that
> people are getting feeds from, so it's very common to have things
> 'doubled up' like this. Does anyone have a better way of keeping things
> stable? Am I correct in assuming it's a gunzip problem? If it were just
> a simple crash, it wouldn't be too bad, but it tends to leave the UUCP:
> partition unvalidated, and it takes a *long* time to validate... (200M
> runs about 85% full, with the oldest file at about 4 days old...)

I don't think it's a uuxqt problem. I've been doing this for a couple
of years now, with no problems I can attribute to this. I am using
1.2.3 though, not 1.2.4 or later.
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