I think this could potentially be caused by bad hardware, especially bad
memory (but also a bad harddrive, bad motherboard, bad cpu, bad scsi
controller, you get the idea...) A bit gets flipped somewhere during
compression or writing to disk, and therefore corruption.
-Sam
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:56:29AM -0400, Jason Belich wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>
> On my RH5.0 box, my compressed files tend to be corrupted. I get
> "Invalid compressed data --crc error" with my gzips about 2/3 of the
> time. I've reinstalled gzip several times BTW, no luck.
>
> THE REALLY ODD THING IS...
>
> this problem affects my Win95 zip files _and_ my Macintosh binhex files
> (samba & netatalk, gotta luv em), too!
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