saving corrupted .Z files?

[Jerry Feldman]

Most likely SOL. You could try gzip and see if it can do it. In your case 
it appears that the file is either truly corrupt or it may have been 
compressed on a different system. If the file was compressed on a Sparc, 
you might need to uncompress it on a Spark. If the data is really 
important, you can take the sources for uncompress and try to figure out 
how the file is corrupt and fix it by hand.  That is a lot of pain.
Ken Gosier wrote:
> Hi, I have a compressed file I'm trying to uncompress. But
> when I give the command, I get the error message:
> 
> insize:1031 posbits:4844 inbuf:F0 CE F3 B7 0B (4)
> uncompress: corrupt input
> 
> I checked the man page for compress, and it tells me as a
> diagnostic:
> 
> uncompress: corrupt input
>     A SIGSEGV violation  was  detected  which  usually
>     means that the input file has been corrupted.
> 
> which, as far as I can tell, means "tough shit." Anybody
> have any experience saving corrupted files like this?
> 
> Thanks very much for any help--
> 
> =====
> Ken Gosier
> ken_gosier at yahoo.com
> 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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