Re: UUCP and gunzip

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From: Bill Seymour
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 1995 14:58

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Michael B. Smith (mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us) wrote:
: 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.

: 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.

	I seem to have fixed things by moving back to compress... By
using quotes in the config file to show compress as "compress -d -b 16 "
I am able to decompress incoming news batches (albeit a lot slower than
with gunzip) and I haven't been crashing as badly. (Up something like 16

	I'll look for old versions of gunzip though, the speed will be
worth the effort...

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