problems decompressing files

[Rob Cozens]

>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.
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