On Thu, 28 Mar 1996 23:47:00 -0500 
 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

 > Dunno. They are reportedly problems faced by people sending large
 > blocks of nulls...

Actually, the sequence that seems to reproduce the error best is 
0x00000000ffffffff.

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