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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:05:22 -0500
From: Bill Lebow <blebow@alum.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

 > On Mar 11 13:12, William Lebow wrote:
 > > echo foo | tee -a test3.txt : terminal output is okay but test3.text
 > > starts with 3 characters of garbage before the string foo
 > >
 > > echo foo | tee test4.txt : terminal output is okay and test4.txt is 
okay too
 > >
 > > So "tee -a" has the same issue as ">>" when creating a new file.
 > >
 > > BTW, I believe that the garbage characters that precede the text is 
an encrypted
 > > version of the text in the file. This Credant software is 
protecting my txt files
 > > by encrypting them.

 > And it's doing something blatantly wrong. Quite obviously, Cygwin
 > only writes the data once. If it's in the file twice, once encrypted
 > and once unencrypted, then this Credant software does not understand
 > native NT writing with append mode(*). You should report this as a bug.
 >
 > Corinna

Corinna, I can't argue with anything you say, and I have reported it to 
the other
vendor. That said, this wasn't a problem with earlier versions of cygwin 
so I thought
maybe there is something that can be done on the cygwin side.

Thanks

 -- Bill

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