problems decompressing files

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Sep 10 16:38:01 EDT 2003


Chris Sheffield wrote:

> I have noticed any size limitations.  I had one test file that was only 6
> bytes and it compressed/decompressed fine.  One thing I did notice, however,
> is that when a file is this small, the compressed file actually ends up
> being larger.  I think in this case it was about 33 bytes.  Not sure what
> that means.

On the flipside, I have successfully run decompress on a 66.3MC .gz file
which decompressed to 526MBs.   Seems to have no trouble with large files
(under OS X anyway)  ;)

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