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RE: Cygwin not honoring setmode


Brad Bell wrote:
> This problem has been discussed before under the subject heading 
> "Problem with gzip". In particular, the message
>    http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00494.html
> appears to state that a problem with "cygwin not honoring setmode" was
> fixed.
> 
> On Saturday, October 30, 2004, I downloaded and installed the current 
> version of the Cygwin. It appears to me that this problem is back It 
> is hard to work around this problem when using automake and
> autoconf, which
> assume piping into gzip works properly.
> 
> The following shell script demonstrates the problem in my copy of the 
> October 30, 2004 version of Cygwin: =========================
> # Running the following program
> #
> echo "test" > Test.dat
> tar -cf  Test.tar Test.dat
> cat Test.tar  | gzip - -c > Test.tar.gz
> rm Test.tar
> gunzip Test.tar.gz
> #
> # produces the following output
> #
> # gunzip: Test.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--format
> violated =========================

Works on my system, both as individual calls and from a script

$ echo "test" > Test.dat
WS-XP-4960:/home/rthompso> 
$ tar -cf  Test.tar Test.dat
WS-XP-4960:/home/rthompso> 
$ cat Test.tar  | gzip - -c > Test.tar.gz
WS-XP-4960:/home/rthompso> 
$ rm Test.tar
WS-XP-4960:/home/rthompso> 
$ gunzip Test.tar.gz
WS-XP-4960:/home/rthompso> 
$ 

reid

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