From:	richardd AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk (Richard Donkin)
Subject:	b17.1 bug in tar --gzip
22 Dec 1996 07:52:14 -0800 :
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With GNU tar 1.11.8 and gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93), as bundled in b17.1, on Win95, I get a corrupt tar 
archive from the following command:

 tar --gzip cvf foo.tar.gz foo.txt
 
where foo.txt is a 9MB text file.  Doing a separate tar then gzip works fine.  Tar tvf on the 
original file says it is corrupt, as does Winzip 6.2 which also understands tar.gz files, so it is 
definitely on the gzip and tar create side not the gunzip and tar unpack side.

I don't get this error on much smaller files, and unpacking large tar.gz files works OK (in fact, 
better than Winzip).

Richard
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