> My summary prompted a few more responses.
>
> The definitive answer is from Joe Ledesma ...
>
> You need a patch subset for gzip for 4.0D that's in patch kit 4:
>
> > setld -i | grep OSFPAT | grep gzip
> OSFPAT00052700425 installed Patch: gzip Cmd Has Problems Uncompressing
> Files(Commands, Shells, & Utility Patches)
>
> This patch is relative to gzip 1.2.4. It allows uncompressing files
> larger than 4 gigabytes. Files already compressed without the patch
> are correct; the patch is needed only for decompression with gunzip.
> Decompression with zcat outputs the correct data plus an error message
> "length error" that you can ignore.
>
> Michael Woods had also come across the problem and overcame it with the
> latest source from http://www.gzip.org
>
> Thanks also to Claudio Tantignone, Bryan Lavelle and Nikola Milutinovic
>
> > Original message
> > ---------------------
> > I get the following error when I test the integrity of a gzip archive
> >
> > gunzip -t -v bigfile.gz
> > gunzip: bigfile.gz: invalid compressed data--length error
> >
>
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