Re: gzip-8bit

> One of the features of YEnc IIRC (and it had many "features") was an
> indication near the beginning of the total length in bytes. In the case of
> a compressed stream, of course, that should be the uncompressed length so
> that implementations can detect early on that the length exceeds the "house
> limit" and abandon the decoding.
Does yenc provide integrity protection of the length value? Or can
I lie and say the 20GB uncompress data is really just 1KB?

--lyndon