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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!mr.net!news-out.communique.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!193.10.88.100!news00.sunet.se!sunic!mn6.swip.net!seunet!news2.swip.net!nike.volvo.se!cyklop.volvo.se!peter From: peter@cyklop.volvo.se (peter hakanson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: core dumping on 'zip' Date: 26 Jan 1997 09:10:47 GMT Organization: Volvo Corp. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5cf72n$8bq@nike.volvo.se> References: <32E8F174.41C67EA6@hia.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cyklop.volvo.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5736 There was a bug in the zip utilities for bsdi 2.0 You do say that you recompile, but did you try getting the latest sources ? As far as i know zip fir bsi 2.1 (and 2.0.1 works). peter h Greg Hackney (hackney@hia.net) wrote: : I'm trying to use 'zip' on some large files (20MB databases) and : it's core dumping. GDB says it's failing in bcopy() : while doing an fwrite() in deflating the file. : It does this on BSDI 1.1 and BSDI 2.0. Recompiles : with different memory options, versions, etc., all : result in a core dump. : I need to be able to zip files that will be compatible : with PKZIP under DOS. Any ideas? : -- : Greg Hackney : hackney@hia.net -- -- <peter.devnull@cyklop.volvo.se> (remove ".devnull" before use!) Peter Hakanson VolvoData Dep 2580 phone +46 31 66 74 27