The following reply was made to PR port-i386/29756; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-i386/29756: gzip -tvv error on netbsd2.0
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:24:57 +0000

 On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 04:28:00PM +0000, robert@giga.or.at wrote:
 > >Synopsis:       gzip -tvv error on netbsd2.0
 ...
 > I get a gzip error on netbsd2.0 machines on large files,
 > but do not get the error when using a gzip from the 1.6 distribution
 > or when checking the same file on a netbsd1.6 machine.
 > 
 > # ll depot.tar.gz
 > -rw-r-----  1 robert  wheel  37703973426 Mar 21 06:06 depot.tar.gz
 ...
 > on the 2.0 machine I get:
 > # gzip -tvv depot.tar.gz
 > gzip: invalid compressed data--length error
 > depot.tar.gz:       NOT OK
 
 I suspect this has something to do withe the fact that the file size
 in the gzip header/trailer is only 32bits wide.
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk