Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/04/27/18:26:46
The real problem then is "text mode pipes". Search the archives for
more information on this.
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---Gorton Zhao Guo Wei <gwzhao AT multiwave DOT com DOT sg> wrote:
>
> Mumit,
>
> Yes, I am using the FAT file system on NT, but the problem does not
seem to be that you mentioned below. To me, it seems to be a problem
with tar utility. I used the following command to unpack and tar this
egcs-1.0.2_tar.gz file. It took me more than 20 hours to do this but
still could not finish it.
>
> tar -xvfz egcs-1.0.2_tar.gz.
>
> To fix this problem is easy, just separate this to two steps as
follow.
>
> gzip -d -xvfz egcs-1.0.2_tar.gz.
> tar -xvf egcs-1.0.2.tar
>
> Thanks,
> Gorton
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mumit Khan [SMTP:khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu]
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 1998 1:51 AM
> To: Gorton Zhao Guo Wei
> Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: Re: EGCS Win32 gcc compiler wanted
>
> gwzhao AT multiwave DOT com DOT sg (Gorton Zhao Guo Wei) writes:
> > I installed the b19.1 to my Pentium 133/32M ram PC together with
NT 4.0 (work
> > station). I tried to tar (decompress) the EGCS 1.0.2 file (9.5M
bytes in size
> > ). It took me whole night (about 15 hours) to do this, but it
still has not b
> > een finished yet. The CPU usage almost stays 100%. It must be
something wrong
> > ly. Normally, it only took a few minuts to compress a 20M bytes
file if used
> > a Winzip on the same computer. I guess that I have to turn on or
to set some
> > flags to this gnu-win32. Does anyone know how to speed up this
gnu-win32?
>
> Bet you're using FAT filesystem on NT, right? If so, you're running
into
> the same old "EA SF" slowdown problem which IMO renders cygwin32
b19.x
> useless for any real work. I believe Geoffrey has stated that he will
> provide an option to not use extended attributes on NT/FAT, but I
haven't
> been keeping up with snapshots to know if it's already happened or
not.
>
> If you're not using FAT on NT, I can't even guess as to the cause of
this
> problem.
>
> Mumit
>
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