GNU bug report logs - #32415
Possible bug in gzip 1.8

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: "Thomas N. Massey" <massey <at> ohio.edu>

Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 17:43:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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From: "Thomas N. Massey" <massey <at> ohio.edu>
To: 32415 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32415: Possible ug in gzip 1.8
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 11:52:50 -0400

Hi,
   We had used gzip routinely to compress and expand text files. 

 We were working on a data set of 93 Mb in files of ~800,000 characters
each.  We found both one or two characters added or removed from a
file. 

   Has this been seen before?   Is there a fix?
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