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From:	Vincent Rowley <vrowley AT pleora DOT com>
Subject:	Re: cp (coreutils) 5.2.1 Corrupts Binary File
Date:	Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:11:06 +0000 (UTC)
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Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:

> 
> On Mar  2 03:52, Vincent Rowley wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We found that cp corrupts binary files which is quite embarrassing...
> > 
> > peugeot[/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32]> cp notepad.exe notepad_copy.exe
> > peugeot[/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32]> diff notepad.exe notepad_copy.exe
> > Files notepad.exe and notepad_copy.exe differ
> > 
> > Please find attached the output of cygcheck -s -v -r .
> > 
> > Is anyone had this issue? Is there any workaround?
> 
> I just tried it on binmode and textmode mounts and in all combinations
> from binmode to textmoe and vice versa.  In no case I could reproduce
> your above observation.
> 
> Are you sure you ran Cygwin's cp and diff?
> 
> Corinna
> 

Hi Corinna,

Yes I am. And I did it again using the full path to the executable 
(c:/apps/cygwin being my Cygwin installation directory).

peugeot[/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32]> c:/apps/cygwin/bin/cp notepad.exe 
notepad_copy.exe
peugeot[/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32]> c:/apps/cygwin/bin/diff notepad.exe 
notepad_copy.exe
Files notepad.exe and notepad_copy.exe differ

Do you think it has to do with the fact that I installed Cygwin to use files 
in DOS mode (in one of the first tab of the Setup.exe application)?

Have you found anything suspect in my cygcheck log?

Vincent



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