zlib inflate problem

Paul Surgeon surgpub at telkomsa.net
Sat May 27 11:53:36 CEST 2006


On Saturday 27 May 2006 02:21, markus reichelt wrote:
> > paul at kubuntu: gpg bigfile.pgp
> > gpg: fatal: zlib inflate problem: invalid block type
> > secmem usage: 1920/3872 bytes
>
> Have you tried redirection?
>
> gpg < bigfile.pgp > bigfile
>
> Using redirection is the correct way of handling large files
> regarding both de- and encryption.

Decryption works like a charm now!
Thank you so much for that tip - I really didn't think that redirection would 
be the cure.

Paul



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