Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/06/09/08:18:44
On Jun 8 14:44, Johnny B. Goode wrote:
> We're using a windows 2000 based server running cygwin as a development
> environment for porting our AIX-based software to the Windows platform.
>
> When we extract the compiled programs, we connect to the cygwin server
> using rsh, passing a file list as input, returning a gzip'ed CPIO archive
> as output using a command like:
>
> cat filelist | rsh cygserver -l logname "cd /directory ; cpio -oc |
> gzip" > output.cpio.gz
>
> This is executed from an AIX server (running AIX 5.3), effectively packing
> files from the filelist in a CGZ-archive that ends up back on the AIX
> server. The problem is, however, that gzip on the cygwin server terminates
> prematurely with the error "gzip: stdout: Invalid argument".
Did you try gzip -c ?
Corinna
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