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Message-ID: <3D2A69B5.66F5C494@doe.carleton.ca>
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 00:42:29 -0400
From: Shing-Fat Fred Ma <fma AT doe DOT carleton DOT ca>
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Subject: sporadic errors from tar
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Hello,

I'm using cygwin on WinME, installed Nov 11/2001,
or such is the timestamp on /setup.log.  In that file,
I have the lines

    Starting cygwin install, version 2.78.2.15

and

    Installing...latest/cygwin/cygwin-1.3.4-4.tar.bz2

I'm hoping I can solve the problem without
upating my cygwin at the moment, as it's not
the greatest time right now.

The problem is when I use tar:

    tar cvhzf safe/Paper.33.tgz `tar tzf safe/Paper.32.tgz`

I'm getting the file names from Paper.32.tgz and archiving
all those files to Paper.33.tgz.

It works usually.  Sometimes, I get the error

    tar: Child died with signal 13
    tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

But after these errors, the archive gets created
anyway.  Once these errors start, they don't go
away no matter how many times I issue the command,
regardless of whether I start up another cygwin
window.  From brief experiment, it seems to go away
if I reboot the computer.

I also get the errors if I simply try

    tar tzf safe/Paper.22.tgz | cat

but not if I leave out the redirection to cat.

I've tried the mailing list search, but the
engine died during one of the refinements.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Fred

P.S.  Is there a way to search the
User Manual?

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Fred Ma
Department of Electronics
Carleton University, Mackenzie Building
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada     K1S 5B6
fma AT doe DOT carleton DOT ca
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