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From: luism@genesis.Berkeley.EDU (Luis Miguel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Incompatible (de)compress in hpux?
Keywords: decompress infinite size
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Date: 21 Mar 91 18:24:52 GMT
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I recently changed the OS in my 9000-350 from Mt Xinu's 4.3bsd
to hpux. The reason being mostly support for peripheral devices,
documentaton and robustness.

I got hpux 7.0. One major thing I noticed is that hpux is noticeably
slower (my guess is about 50%). I can live with that.
The problems:

	I am getting various goodies (emacs, gcc, uuencode, x11r4, etc)
from different sources, and I found that anything that I get in compressed
format cannot be decompressed by the compress command in hpux. Both
decompress and zcat produce infinitely large files from files compressed
in suns or vaxes. The program just keeps writing away until killed or
disk space is exhausted. Is there anything I can do? Since I use a 2400
baud line to get some goodies, compression is of the essence.

Also, when I run X, my server is dying for no apparent reason,
at randomly chosen intervals of idleness. Sometimes it lasts 12 hours,
others only 2 hrs. Any ideas?

Thanks,

/Luis

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