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echo: locsysop
to: Bob Lawrence
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1996-12-14 08:52:06
subject: OS/2 4.0

PE> Now what you see here is that the compressed sizes are
PE> different!!! 

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,
BL> and I've often wondered why that would be... there's got to be
BL> something random involved in the zip.

No, it's not normal AT ALL!  What evidence do you have of this?  A single
example will be fine.  Same version of zip, with the same parameters. BFN. 
Paul.
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