The following reply was made to PR bin/33045; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/33045 NetBSD gzip rejects files GNU gzip accepts
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 16:09:04 +0200

 The same problem can be observed with Amanda backup files. The files,
 being blocked tape files, are padded at their end and gzip fails
 to unpack them.
 
 Even worse, when gzip sees the padding it aborts without flushing
 the previously unpacked input.
 
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                                 Michael van Elst
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