From: oyehia AT oracle DOT dsuper DOT net ("Who cares...") Subject: Re: bug? tar cvf : setgrent not done 12 Feb 1997 03:32:01 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-To: "M.Carter" Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19970211104129.1df79464@scooter.gcal.ac.uk> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com well yeah i had this problem, when i did the following: tar -czvf file.tar *.exe it seems that i got extra bytes, i assume they are \r or LF no clue.. so i uploaded my ports to the site, then i got people complaining that they can't gunzip the files, so i redid one of them and used winzip this time, it worked fine, there seems to be a bug, which is also in strip.exe, again i used strip on one of the programs i did, and they no longer work, i guess another beta of cygnus is coming soon, i have so many stuff planned to port including: ispell (almost done) tcsh (problems with some libraries) zsh (so far so good) telnet (many libraries missing) ncurses (working but can't use colors) ncftp (bug in snding files, LF problem again) irc2.8.2 (half working) most of the muds ported... (merc, rom, envy, etc...) hangman(tough one, but could be done...) i hope it comes out soon.. btw where is dir.h? i am using my linux one, it's working :) On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, M.Carter wrote: > Suppose I have a file/directory called stuff. I try > > tar cvf stuff.tar stuff > > I obtain the message : > > setgrent called, and it's not done yet. > > Otherwise, everything is fine, and works as expected. I can de-archive > it okay using > > tar xvf stuff.tar > > without complaints or hiccups. > > Any ideas what the problem is? > Should I be worried? > Everything seems to work okay, except for the appearance of the crytic message. > > I am using beta 17.1, on a Pentium 133 running Windows 95. > > - > For help on using this list, send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".