From: wrichard AT direct DOT ca (Wade Richards @ Home)
Subject: Re: win95 bash 19.1 crash
8 May 1998 08:48:07 -0700
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From: Geoffrey S. Knauth <gknauth AT bbn DOT com>

>If I do the following:
>    $ FILES=`find . -name '*.class'`
>and then:
>    $ tar cf foo.tar $FILES
>I get (from Win95):
>    an alert panel with a red X that says:
>    "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut
down.

Win95 has a fairly small limit on the max length of a command (including
the arguments).  I think it's 1K, but I don't have a Win95 machine around
to test it with.

Try the "--files-from" (or -T) option to tar, like
      find . -name '*.class > /tmp/$$-list
      tar cf foo.tar -T /tmp/$$-list
      rm /tmp/$$-list

    --- Wade

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-----Original Message-----
From: Geoffrey S. Knauth <gknauth AT bbn DOT com>

>If I do the following:
>    $ FILES=`find . -name '*.class'`
>and then:
>    $ tar cf foo.tar $FILES
>I get (from Win95):
>    an alert panel with a red X that says:
>    "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut
>down.
>     Quit all programs, and then restart your computer.
>     If the problem persists, contact the program vendor."
>(What a piece of @#$%^ Windows is, n'est ce pas?)
>Anyway, when I click on Details, I get:
>    BASH caused a stack fault in model KERNEL32.DLL at
>014f:bff725c5.
>Registers:
>EAX=002a0037 CS=014f EIP=bff725c5 EFLGS=00000283
>EBX=fda79000 SS=0157 ESP=0258634a EBP=0258635e
>...
>
>
>
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