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From: dbw@ariel.UUCP (DAVE B. WOOD)
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Subject: Re: Possible compress bug (Re: Finding Books (quat itat itang?))
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Date: Tue, 13-May-86 14:19:24 EDT
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> It looks like compress 4.0 mangle.  I just had a C source get mangled
> the same way. I think it looks like part of the decompression table is
> wrong so stuff is garbled.

Losing a single byte will trash the rest of a decompressed file.

Dave Wood