When i use gunzip file.gz, I eventually get the error File too large. When I use zcat file.gz > file, I get the error CRC check failed (although I know that this is not the case). I do, however, get a partial file that is correct, but not complete. If I do cat file.gz | gunzip > file as Tor suggested, then I get the CRC error check failed. I know that the file is gzipped correctly as it expands OK on the machine on which it was created. On Thursday 27 June 2002 22:46, Robert Wohlfarth wrote:

On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 20:41, Ron Cordell wrote:

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I am unable to uncompress a file using gunzip that I gzipped from another machine. I am able to sucessfully gunzip the file on machine A, but not on machine B. Both machines are running SuSE 7.3, but machine B has kernel 2.4.16 while machine A has the original kernel that shipped with 7.3, kernel 2.4.10. I am trying to gunzip the files on an EXT3 file system which should support a file of this size, about 2.5GB uncompressed, and about 230MB compressed. Does anyone have any ideas about what the problem might be?

What was the exact command you typed in to gzip the file? And what does gunzip print to the screen (error message)?

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