Subject: Re: More corruption [Re: Problems with ncftp]
From: Stipe Tolj <[email-masked]>
To: Frank McIngvale <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:48:19 +0100

> Hm, it's apparently not just a problem with ncftp.
> The following also causes file corruption:
>
> $ bzip2 -9k bigfile
> $ bzip2 -dc bigfile.bz2 | bzip2 -9 > out.bz2
>
> bigfile     = 21,301,412 bytes
> bigfile.bz2 =  3,338,162 bytes
> out.bz2     =  3,351,827 bytes (!!!)
>
> $ bzip2 -t out.bz2
>
>   out.bz2: data integrity (CRC) error in data
>
> Now, since bigfile.bz2 is okay, it's not a problem
> with bzip2 or any text/binary issues with the
> filesystem, right? Something must be going wrong
> during the pipeline in the second step.
>
> As an additional test, I tried this with a file
> of size 387,259 bytes, and everything was OK, so
> there appears to be some size threshold where this
> error occurs.
>
> Again, this is B20.1, egcs-1.1.1, tcsh 6.08.

have you noticed the same effect within bash?

Regards,
Stipe

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Stipe Tolj <[email-masked]>

Cygwin Porting Project -- "We build UNIX on top of Windows"
http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/

Department of Economical Computer Science
University of Cologne, Germany

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