From: richardd AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk (Richard Donkin) Subject: b17.1 bug in tar --gzip 22 Dec 1996 07:52:14 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Reply-To: richardd AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Cc: richardd AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com With GNU tar 1.11.8 and gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93), as bundled in b17.1, on Win95, I get a corrupt tar archive from the following command: tar --gzip cvf foo.tar.gz foo.txt where foo.txt is a 9MB text file. Doing a separate tar then gzip works fine. Tar tvf on the original file says it is corrupt, as does Winzip 6.2 which also understands tar.gz files, so it is definitely on the gzip and tar create side not the gunzip and tar unpack side. I don't get this error on much smaller files, and unpacking large tar.gz files works OK (in fact, better than Winzip). Richard -- richardd AT cix DOT compulink DOT co DOT uk http://www.inside-edge.co.uk/ Inside Edge Consultancy Client/Server and Internet Applications PGP key from: pgp-public-keys AT keys DOT pgp DOT net -or- http://www.four11.com/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".