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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 11 May 1998.
Re: help! Small disaster with corrupt file, 600KB useless...

Re: help! Small disaster with corrupt file, 600KB useless...

In article <355...@on.spammer>, Veronica Karlsson
<dre...@on.spammer> wrote:
> 
> A little file (ok, not so little, ca 1.5MB) that I keep open to
> copy-and-paste stuff into wouldn't unzip today. I got this error
> message:
> 
> gunzip: diverse.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error
> 
> I have managed to unzip parts of it but ca 600KB in the middle just
> looks like garbage. Any help to restore it would be very welcome. Here
> is what the distorted part of the file looks like:
> 
> http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/ascii/problem/disaster.problem
> 
> Since it wouldn't be a good idea to spam this newsgroup with that much
> stuff (which has already been seen here) I suggest that you send any
> contributions to me in email at e93...@sm.luth.se
>

It looks like a lot of what is there can be accessed with dejanews. Why
not use the powersearch

http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml

and type in keywords and names.


What a bizarre and strange thing to happen....


 ___________      `
|\   ((#####)\    ` \
| \ ==))###(= \     \ //)
|  \ ||#####|_ \     ((#(
|[> \___________\     ))#|
| | |            |    ||#/                            |
 \  |            |    ||/      .--.                   |
  \ |            |)---.   .---'    `-.         .----(]|
   \|____________|     `-'            `.     .'       |
                                        `---'    ejm98|


NOTE: If you are e-mailing me and hit the reply button, add an "e"
to "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers.
--
llizard aka ejm
cq5...@freenet.toronto.on.ca                              ,^
www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/     ===%^^^^^^^^^^^^
ASCII-art, ASCII and gif animations            "    "

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Subject: Re: help! Small disaster with corrupt file, 600KB useless...
Date: 1998/05/11
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