Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/11/05/05:57:45
On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 05:12:13PM -0500, bahi wrote:
>
> > Beta 20 also includes upgrades to a number of packages: ash-0.3.2-4,
> > bash 2.02.1, grep-2.2, ncurses 4.2, and less 332. We have added bzip2
> > 0.9.0 to the distribution. And you'll now find that the df utility has
> > joined its other friends from the fileutils package.
>
> where's less?
I was intending to include less but I was having problems with less
reporting that the terminal wasn't fully functional and I didn't have
time to clear this up so less 332 is in the sources but the binary
wasn't included in the release.
That said, I am expecting to include it in the next update release
(probably based on libtermcap).
> bzip2? - excellent. but i am worried.
[...]
> bzip2 -d < sample1.bz2 > sample1.tst
>
> bzip2: Compressed file ends unexpectedly;
> perhaps it is corrupted? *Possible* reason follows.
[...]
The problem has to do with Cygwin and binary vs. text mode issues
in the shell. While we need to fix them, I worked around the problem
by changing the bzip2 sources included with the release. Now the
Cygwin Makefile reads:
check test: bzip2
@cat words1
./bzip2 -1k sample1.ref
mv sample1.ref.bz2 sample1.rb2
./bzip2 -2k sample2.ref
mv sample2.ref.bz2 sample2.rb2
./bzip2 -dk sample1.bz2
mv sample1 sample1.tst
./bzip2 -dk sample2.bz2
mv sample2 sample2.tst
@cat words2
cmp sample1.bz2 sample1.rb2
cmp sample2.bz2 sample2.rb2
cmp sample1.tst sample1.ref
cmp sample2.tst sample2.ref
@cat words3
Anyway, as far as I know there are not any problem with bzip2's
compression/decompression in b20...
--
Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com
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