From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: RE: EGCS Win32 gcc compiler wanted 27 Apr 1998 18:26:46 -0700 Message-ID: <19980427111929.524.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1d.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Gorton Zhao Guo Wei , "'Mumit Khan'" Cc: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" The real problem then is "text mode pipes". Search the archives for more information on this. - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- --earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com-- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- ---Gorton Zhao Guo Wei wrote: > > Mumit, > > Yes, I am using the FAT file system on NT, but the problem does not seem to be that you mentioned below. To me, it seems to be a problem with tar utility. I used the following command to unpack and tar this egcs-1.0.2_tar.gz file. It took me more than 20 hours to do this but still could not finish it. > > tar -xvfz egcs-1.0.2_tar.gz. > > To fix this problem is easy, just separate this to two steps as follow. > > gzip -d -xvfz egcs-1.0.2_tar.gz. > tar -xvf egcs-1.0.2.tar > > Thanks, > Gorton > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mumit Khan [SMTP:khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu] > Sent: Friday, April 24, 1998 1:51 AM > To: Gorton Zhao Guo Wei > Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > Subject: Re: EGCS Win32 gcc compiler wanted > > gwzhao AT multiwave DOT com DOT sg (Gorton Zhao Guo Wei) writes: > > I installed the b19.1 to my Pentium 133/32M ram PC together with NT 4.0 (work > > station). I tried to tar (decompress) the EGCS 1.0.2 file (9.5M bytes in size > > ). It took me whole night (about 15 hours) to do this, but it still has not b > > een finished yet. The CPU usage almost stays 100%. It must be something wrong > > ly. Normally, it only took a few minuts to compress a 20M bytes file if used > > a Winzip on the same computer. I guess that I have to turn on or to set some > > flags to this gnu-win32. Does anyone know how to speed up this gnu-win32? > > Bet you're using FAT filesystem on NT, right? If so, you're running into > the same old "EA SF" slowdown problem which IMO renders cygwin32 b19.x > useless for any real work. I believe Geoffrey has stated that he will > provide an option to not use extended attributes on NT/FAT, but I haven't > been keeping up with snapshots to know if it's already happened or not. > > If you're not using FAT on NT, I can't even guess as to the cause of this > problem. > > Mumit > > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".