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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!ogicse!psgrain!charnel!fish
From: fish@ecst.csuchico.edu (Kevin Haddock)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: backing up?
Summary: Un/Compress dies.
Keywords: 386BSD compress uncompress bugs
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Date: 3 Oct 92 04:40:29 GMT
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I have noticed that uncompress dies when doing very large ( 5mb ) files.
I wonder if this could be related.  It is not just the process that
dies and leaves a core, it is the whole machine.  Does anyone know
anything about this?  (please excuse me if this has already been answered
earlier! :)