problems decompressing files

T. R. Ponn alptex2 at orwell.net
Thu Sep 11 07:12:01 EDT 2003


Holy cow!  13 bytes in a row?  The...my idea on this are somewhere 
between dumb and dumber!  I would think encountering 13 identical and 
contiguous bytes would be a very common occurrence.

Best Regards,

Tim Ponn...the guy who thought turning 1 file into 1,000,000 files was a 
good approach. :-[


Dar Scott wrote:

>
> On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 05:47 PM, T. R. Ponn wrote:
>
>> While waiting for the real fix, how about some experiments to find 
>> out what the limit is...let's just say here that it's 64KB...then 
>> break your files up into pieces. After decompressing, reassemble them?
>>
>> It ain't pretty, but maybe it'll patch you for now.
>
>
> I think the bug report shows an example of length 13.  I think I was 
> able to create a pattern of just length 11 that failed, but my memory 
> is not to be trusted.
>
> Dar
> Scott
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