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Date:      Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:05:41 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Victor Rotanov <vitjok@fasts.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: gzip
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961225220449.247E-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961222161900.1465J-100000@server.fasts.com>

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On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Victor Rotanov wrote:

> Not really FreeBSD question, but anyway:
> how big is chance that 90meg .tar.gz archive that passed gzip -t test has 
> been changed because of errors during ftp transfer or because possible 
> disk errors?

I would say, pretty good.  That much data would be hard to pass without
SOMETHING going wrong.

It is these cases that the split(1) command was made for.  :)  Split it
into bite-size chunks and send.  This is what FreeBSD uses to make the
bin.aa, bin.bb...archives for distribution.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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