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 May 2004 15:30:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Dave Yost cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gzip bug? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Wed, 12 May 2004, Dave Yost wrote: > Z% tar cf - /usr/include /usr/i?86*/include | gzip > cygwin-include.tgz > tar: Removing leading `/' from member names > Z% gunzip < cygwin-include.tgz | tar tf - > ,list > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > > gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error > > gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > Z% which tar gzip gunzip > /usr/bin/tar > /usr/bin/gzip > /usr/bin/gunzip > Z% uname -a > CYGWIN_NT-5.0 dyw1 1.5.9(0.112/4/2) 2004-03-18 23:05 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin > Z% tar cf - /usr/include /usr/i?86*/include | bzip2 > cygwin-include.tbz > tar: Removing leading `/' from member names > Z% bunzip2 < cygwin-include.tbz | tar tf - > ,list > Z% WFM(tm). You could try following the problem reporting guidelines at > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html and provide more information about your system. At a guess, this may be a text vs. binary mount problem... 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/