From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: Creating /tmp works (was RE: Strange configuration script problems...)
26 Nov 1996 23:53:43 -0800
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David Highley wrote:

>I just finished trying all of your suggestions and this still will not
>work:
>    cat //a/data1.aa >>junk
>

Cygwin.dll opens stdin/stdout in text, not binary mode :-( Try
 tar cvfz test.tar.gz any_file - the resulting archive will be broken...


Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia

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