Index: sword-1.5.9/src/modules/common/zverse.cpp
===================================================================
--- sword-1.5.9.orig/src/modules/common/zverse.cpp	2005-11-20 06:06:40.000000000 +0000
+++ sword-1.5.9/src/modules/common/zverse.cpp	2006-12-08 14:10:02.000000000 +0000
@@ -257,13 +257,12 @@
 
 void zVerse::zReadText(char testmt, long start, unsigned short size, SWBuf &inBuf) {
 	inBuf = "";
-	inBuf.setFillByte(0);
-	inBuf.setSize(size+1);
-	if (size > 0) {
-		if (cacheBuf)
-			strncpy(inBuf.getRawData(), &(cacheBuf[start]), size);
+	if ( (size > 0) && cacheBuf && ((unsigned)(start+size) <= strlen(cacheBuf)) ){ //TODO: optimize this, remove strlen
+		inBuf.setFillByte(0);
+		inBuf.setSize(size+1);
+		strncpy(inBuf.getRawData(), &(cacheBuf[start]), size);
+		inBuf.setSize(strlen(inBuf.c_str()));
 	}
-	inBuf.setSize(strlen(inBuf.c_str()));
 }
 
 
Index: sword-1.5.9/src/modules/common/zipcomprs.cpp
===================================================================
--- sword-1.5.9.orig/src/modules/common/zipcomprs.cpp	2003-06-27 02:41:08.000000000 +0100
+++ sword-1.5.9/src/modules/common/zipcomprs.cpp	2006-12-08 13:14:15.000000000 +0000
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 	if (len)
 	{
 		//printf("Doing compress\n");
-		if (compress((Bytef*)zbuf, &zlen, (const Bytef*)buf, len)!=Z_OK)
+		if (compress((Bytef*)zbuf, &zlen, (const Bytef*)buf, len) != Z_OK)
 		{
 			printf("ERROR in compression\n");
 		}
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
 	}
 	else
 	{
-		fprintf(stderr, "No buffer to compress\n");
+		fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: no buffer to compress\n");
 	}
 	delete [] zbuf;
 	free (buf);
@@ -144,15 +144,18 @@
 		unsigned long blen = zlen*20;	// trust compression is less than 1000%
 		char *buf = new char[blen]; 
 		//printf("Doing decompress {%s}\n", zbuf);
-		if (uncompress((Bytef*)buf, &blen, (Bytef*)zbuf, zlen) != Z_OK) {
-			fprintf(stderr, "no room in outbuffer to during decompression. see zipcomp.cpp\n");
+		slen = 0;
+		switch (uncompress((Bytef*)buf, &blen, (Bytef*)zbuf, zlen)){
+			case Z_OK: SendChars(buf, blen); slen = blen; break;
+			case Z_MEM_ERROR: fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: not enough memory during decompression.\n"); break;
+			case Z_BUF_ERROR: fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: not enough room in the out buffer during decompression.\n"); break;
+			case Z_DATA_ERROR: fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: corrupt data during decompression.\n"); break;
+			default: fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: an unknown error occured during decompression.\n"); break;
 		}
-		SendChars(buf, blen);
 		delete [] buf;
-		slen = blen;
 	}
 	else {
-		fprintf(stderr, "No buffer to decompress!\n");
+		fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: no buffer to decompress!\n");
 	}
 	//printf("Finished decoding\n");
 	free (zbuf);
Index: sword-1.5.9/src/modules/common/entriesblk.cpp
===================================================================
--- sword-1.5.9.orig/src/modules/common/entriesblk.cpp	2006-12-08 14:10:16.000000000 +0000
+++ sword-1.5.9/src/modules/common/entriesblk.cpp	2006-12-08 14:10:38.000000000 +0000
@@ -10,8 +10,13 @@
 	// offset(4); size(4);
 
 EntriesBlock::EntriesBlock(const char *iBlock, unsigned long size) {
-	block = (char *)calloc(1, size);
-	memcpy(block, iBlock, size);
+	if (size) {
+		block = (char *)calloc(1, size);
+		memcpy(block, iBlock, size);
+	}
+	else {
+		block = (char *)calloc(1, sizeof(__u32));
+	}
 }