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Date:      Sun, 07 Dec 1997 12:48:02 -0800
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        dave@syix.com
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Make World Fails
Message-ID:  <199712072048.MAA07922@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19971206195010.00b0c670@syix.com>
References:  <3.0.2.32.19971206112246.008bb5a0@syix.com> <3.0.2.32.19971206112246.008bb5a0@syix.com> <3.0.2.32.19971206195010.00b0c670@syix.com>

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In article <3.0.2.32.19971206195010.00b0c670@syix.com>,
Dave Overton  <dave@syix.com> wrote:

> For info, the file was corrupted, it had the right date and size, just a
> bunch of NULL characters in it, about the middle of line 1123 to about line
> 1130...

Yep, and I'd bet dollars to donuts that the corruption begins at a
multiple of 512 bytes (and probably a multiple of 4096 bytes) from
the beginning of the file.  Man, I _hate_ those kinds of problems.
:-(

John
--
   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth



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