From owner-freebsd-questions  Wed Dec 25 22:05:58 1996
Return-Path: <owner-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA09204
          for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:05:58 -0800 (PST)
Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line5.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.188])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA09197
          for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:05:54 -0800 (PST)
Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA02006; Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:05:42 -0800 (PST)
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 22:05:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
To: Victor Rotanov <vitjok@fasts.com>
cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: gzip
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961222161900.1465J-100000@server.fasts.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961225220449.247E-100000@localhost>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

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