Compress/Uncompress/Zcat etc.

[Shin Kurokawa]

Hello, everybody! I don't read this newsgroup regularly, but I
was in such a big trouble that I decided to post this in this
newsgroup in search of help...

I'm a longtime user of unix systems, but I just encountered some
weird thing just now, and I hope that someone could help me out.
I had all my old data files compressed and kept in a
subdirectory for a few months. I tried to uncompress them this
morning, and to my surprise, I got garbage and nothing
readable!! On top of that, the core was dumped! Holy cow!! Could
anybody out there in the net help me!?

Thanks,

--Shin--

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