RE: Gzip Problems

[H. Merijn Brand]

address@hidden (Andreas Schwab) wrote in
<address@hidden>: 

>|> I think plain gzip 1.2.4 (or 1.2.4a) should work for some special
>|> cases of large files.  If you configure gzip 1.2.4 with special
>|> options (i.e. something more complicated than plain "configure;
>|> make"), then you can get a version of gzip that will work on many
>|> large files.  But even this method produces a gzip with known bugs,
>|> and I don't recommend it.  I would use gzip 1.3 instead.
>
>Where is this version available?  It does not seem to exist on
>ftp.gnu.org (at least not on our mirror).

The GNU Alpha site:

        ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.3.tar.gz


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