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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:35:16 +0100
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From: Michael Schaap <cygwin AT mscha DOT com>
Subject: Re: Editing zipped files with VIM under cygwin
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At 14:00 13-11-2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> > 2. 'bzip2 --version > xx' doesn't finish.
>
>I can reproduce that but don't know why that happens, currently.

That seems to be a bzip2 feature/bug.  (It behaves the same on RedHat 7.1.)

--------------------8<--------------------
$ bzip2 --version
bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor.  Version 1.0.1, 23-June-2000.

    Copyright (C) 1996-2000 by Julian Seward.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms set out in the LICENSE file, which is included
    in the bzip2-1.0 source distribution.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    LICENSE file for more details.

bzip2: I won't write compressed data to a terminal.
bzip2: For help, type: `bzip2 --help'.
-------------------->8--------------------

As you can see, the --version flag doesn't stop bzip2 from trying to 
compress standard input.
Possible workarounds:

$bzip2 --version --help 2>qqq

$bzip2 --version </dev/null >/dev/null 2>qqq

  - Michael

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