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From: herb1@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Eric Pearce)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Problems with Compress
Message-ID: <13006@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 01:35:46 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 16 01:35:46 1987
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I have been ftp'ing a number of files from archive sites of comp.sources.*
(j.cc.purdue.edu mostly) and I have been having problems uncompressing
the '.Z' files.  Uncompress core-dumps or just sits and does nothing when
I try to use it on the files.  I've tried this using the system's uncompress
on a Sun-3/180, Encore Multimax, and a VAX 11/750 with the same results.
I even copied the version of 'compress' stored on the archive site and
compiled this on each machine with no luck.  Some of the files that would
uncompress without complaint would be only partially uncompressed (only the
mail header?) ... Any suggestions?
                                   -thanks in advance




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