Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/01/25/12:05:59
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 02:25:07PM +0100, Ilya Pobelov wrote:
>>>After installing cygwin-1.5.6-1 files created with
>>>tar -c <names> | bzip2 > file.tar.bz2
>>>were corrupted (bzip2 reports CRC cheking error when trying to unpack).
>>>With cygwin-1.5.6-1 such command works as expected.
>
>I am very sorry, I made a missprint. Everything worked fine with
>previous version cygwin-1.5.5-1
>
>>The tar command + pipe that you specify would not produce a compressed
>>tar archive since tar -c <names> would not produce anything on stdout
>>for bzip2 to compress.
Actually, I was wrong here. This would work fine. Apologies.
>bash-2.05b$ tar -c work | bzip2 > work.tar.bz2
>bash-2.05b$ bzip2 -t work.tar.bz2
>bzip2: work.tar.bz2: data integrity (CRC) error in data
>
>You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
>data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.
>
>bash-2.05b$ rm work.tar.bz2
>bash-2.05b$ tar -cf - work | bzip2 > work.tar.bz2
>bash-2.05b$ bzip2 -t work.tar.bz2
>bzip2: work.tar.bz2: data integrity (CRC) error in data
>
>You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover
>data from undamaged sections of corrupted files.
Sorry, but as previously indicated, I can't duplicate this.
See http://cygwin.com/problems.html for a description of how to report
problems that might help.
If I were you, I would be comparing the difference between the working
and non-working cases, like is the file size different? I'd also try
the most recent snapshot: http://cygwin.com/snapshots.html .
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