From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   Barry Margolin wrote:   
   (snip)   
      
   > Maybe we're confused about the chunking.  He said he's gzipping the   
   > data, then sending that data in chunks.  I assume he meant that he's   
   > breaking the gzip'ed file down into even smaller chunks.  But since gzip   
   > is a stream compression mechanism, I don't think you can decompress it   
   > if you process them out of order.  So losing a chunk means the rest of   
   > that file is lost.   
      
   It sounds like it isn't stream data, but many separate   
   data items.  (Such as stock prices on a stock ticker.)   
      
   The original post didn't make it clear if it was gzip'ed as   
   a continuous stream or in individual packets of some   
   (unknown to us) size.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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