BL> Isn't that normal? If you zip a file ten times you get ten subtly
BL> different zipped-sizes, all with the same CRC. It's a bloody nuisance,

FM> Are you sure about that? Ten different
FM> times with the same h/w & s/w congig?

BL> I checked it again and Paul is right. But I tested it once before when
BL> I was writing a QWK reader trying to use the zipped size to identify
BL> the QWK packet... and I kept getting a different size. God knows why.

FM> I think OLX uses a similar strategy, but probably records
FM> the size after re-zipping so it doesn't run into that problem.

It doesnt rezip QWKs at all normally. And that quote of Bobs at the top
is clearly talking about repeated ZIPs producing the SAME CRC on each too.
@EOT:

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