Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/11/14/14:09:03
I've removed <support at gzip dot org> from this discussion. So far this
is Cygwin-related, and you can update them later on the results if it
turns out to be a generic gzip issue.
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Thomas Hammer wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu]
> > Sent: 14. november 2003 16:28
> > To: Thomas Hammer
> > Cc: support AT gzip DOT org; cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: Re: Bug in gzip's stdout handling
> >
>
> Hi Igor.
>
> Thanks for responding so promptly :).
>
> <...>
>
> >
> > I bet you have a text mount. Please *attach* the output of "cygcheck
> > -svr", as per <http://cygwin.com/problems.html> - this will confirm the
> > guess.
>
> cygcheck.out attached.
>
> I didn't find anything about any drives being mounted as text, though.
>
> Two small bits of info that might or might not have some value:
>
> 1) I believe this has worked earlier (i.e. 6 months ago) for a colleague of
> mine, running a recent version of cygwin. Which means that something could
> have been broken in cygwin after that, or (more likely) that something for
> some reason is configured differently on my system.
>
> 2) When I installed cygwin, I was asked if I wanted the tools to support
> Unix-style newlines or DOS-style newlines. I answered "DOS-style". I did
> reinstall cygwin, specifying "Unix-style" newlines this time, and had the
> same problem though.
>
> .Thomas
(2) shows that you used to have text mounts. Your cygcheck.out shows
binary mounts, so that's probably not the problem.
Please try the following: "sed '' binaryfile.bin > acopy.bin" and compare
the files. Also "echo | sed '' > test.out; od -c test.out" and "perl -e
'print q{ }x2560' | gzip -c > test.gz; od -c test.gz".
Igor
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