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Re: gzip -l (--list) incorrect uncompressed size displayed
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Pete Lancashire |
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Re: gzip -l (--list) incorrect uncompressed size displayed |
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Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:55:35 -0700 (PDT) |
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> I'm afraid that bug is an inherent property of the gzip format; it
> stores the uncompressed size modulo 2**32. Fixing this will require
> changing the format, not something we want to do lightly.
ah .. i should have taken the time to read the docs, I'll modify
my script to remember the orig size before hand.
Thanks for getting back to me ..
-pete