problems decompressing files

[Dar Scott]

On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 02:52 PM, Rob Cozens wrote:

>> I would think encountering 13 identical and contiguous bytes would be 
>> a very common occurrence
>
> I think something more is at play here:  I put 13 "@"s in an SDB 
> record field, backed up the db--which includes gzip compression, and 
> then restored from the (decompressed) backup.  I then add a line of 
> approx 30 "*"s with the same (error-free) result.
>
> What are we doing differently?  I ran my tests on a G4 iMac, Mac OS 
> 10.2, & RR 2.02.

It may be that you have some bytes before the @'s in your data that 
causes the problem to be avoided in this case.

I'm on G4 Mac, Mac OS 10.2.6 and Revolution 2.1.  This was first 
reported for 2.1 RC1, I think, so maybe it is not in earlier versions.

Dar Scott