Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3D2A6D2E.490946E0@doe.carleton.ca> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 00:57:18 -0400 From: Shing-Fat Fred Ma X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: sporadic errors from tar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just a follow-up to the attached with further details. Contrary to what I said, rebooting doesn't help (though it did at one point). Other odd behaviour is that "gunzip --help" and "gzip --help" seem to send the help information all over the screen, as if there were weird tabs randomly thrown. Strangely, the help info looks OK if I pipe it through "less". Also, "tar --help" does not give this crazy formatting. I hope I don't have to upgrade cygwin. Now's not the greatest time.... Fred ------------------------------------------- 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 =========================================== -------- Original Message -------- Subject: sporadic errors from tar Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 00:42:29 -0400 From: Shing-Fat Fred Ma To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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? ------------------------------------------- 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 =========================================== -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/