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From: samperi@dasys1.UUCP (Dominick Samperi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: compress and binary files?
Message-ID: <2384@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 87 01:57:52 GMT
Organization: The Big Electric Cat, NYC, NY
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Keywords: compress,binary,text


I've been using compress for Microport's System V/AT for quite some time
without any problems, but today I learned that it can fail when an attempt is
made to compress a cpio (or tar) archive that contains a binary file. I tried
to compress a cpio archive that contained a core file near the end, and
everything was fine until the core file was encountered, at which point there
was a memory fault at the statement containing the expression
htabof(i) = fcode. Is it illegal to use compress on binary files, or are there
any similar restrictions? If not, does anybody know how to fix this problem?
Thanks.
-- 
	Dominick Samperi, Manhattan College, New York, NY
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