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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