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Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:51:06 -0500
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject: Subshells don't respect CYGWIN settings with latest snapshots?
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(Sorry if this is a duplicate; my regular ISP is on the ORBS list right
now...sigh...and I'm not sure if the first one made it)

If I try to unpack a .tar.gz file with 'CYGWIN=nobinmode ntea tty' using
a pipe, I get an error -- this is the expected behavior (if the
tar-stream has binary characters..?).

/usr/local/src/redhat/SOURCES/tmp > gzip -cd DelimMatch-1.04.tar.gz |
tar xf -
tar: Skipping to next file header
tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

However, if my global environment settings contain 'CYGWIN=binmode ntea
tty', then the first rxvt/bash window I open works thusly:

/usr/local/src/redhat/SOURCES/tmp > echo $CYGWIN
tty ntea binmode
/usr/local/src/redhat/SOURCES/tmp > gzip -cd DelimMatch-1.04.tar.gz |
tar xvf -
DelimMatch-1.04/
DelimMatch-1.04/DelimMatch.pm
DelimMatch-1.04/Makefile.PL
DelimMatch-1.04/MANIFEST
DelimMatch-1.04/README
DelimMatch-1.04/test.pl

Then, I start a subshell: in the first rxvt/bash window, I execute: rxvt
-e bash &. In the new bash window:

/usr/local/src/redhat/SOURCES/tmp > echo $CYGWIN
tty ntea binmode
/usr/local/src/redhat/SOURCES/tmp >  gzip -cd DelimMatch-1.04.tar.gz |
tar xvf -
DelimMatch-1.04/
DelimMatch-1.04/DelimMatch.pm
tar: Skipping to next file header
tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I see this behavior with the 20000311, 20000306, 20000228, 20000131,
20000106, and 19991124 snapshots. What's going on, anyone got a clue?

--Chuck

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