Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:51:59 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Don Sharp cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygcheck -c gives an Application Error In-Reply-To: <3FB279B0.75AD553B@iee.org> Message-ID: References: <3FB217B9.98E12267@iee.org> <3FB25B7F.C162B967@iee.org> <3FB279B0.75AD553B@iee.org> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Don Sharp wrote: > [snip] > It's definitely our friend textutils. Examining the output from the zcat > piped through less shows that second and subsequent lines begin "^@", > which is the likely cause of the problem. Removing the nulls allows > "cygcheck -cv" to succeed. > > Thank you very much for your help in locating the source of the problem. > > Cheers > Don Sharp Glad it helped. The interesting question, though, is how those NULs got into the package listing in the first place... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/