From: bfishman@nirvanah.corp.es.com (Barry Fishman) Subject: Re: Problems with pipes under b17 12 Dec 1996 07:43:25 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612121527.IAA13668.cygnus.gnu-win32@nirvanah.corp.es.com> Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Dec 1996 08:47:03 EST." <199612111346.FAA29486@cygnus.com> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Re: Scott Kay >I'm experiencing a problem with the following under b17. If I try the >following 'zcat all.tar.gz | tar tvf -' under b17 I get: > ... Between B16 and B17, the pipe connection went from binary to ascii breaking the byte counts associated with the tar format (moving through the pipe). Fortunately, its GNU tar, so one can: 'tar tfvz all.tar.gz'. Barry - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".