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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: "'Cygwin List'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Problem with gzip
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:50:08 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall 
> Sent: 14 April 2004 16:16

> >>  The above errors seem to indicate that gzip is correctly
> >> detecting a damaged .gz file.
> >
> >  Absolutely so.  Every $0a byte got a bogus $0d prepended 
> to it.  No wonder
> >it wouldn't unpack!
> 
> 
> Yeah?  So?  Next you're going to tell me that gzip won't 
> unpack a file that
> I've uuencrypted or run through 'tr'! Cygwin's no good.


  Yeh, Cygwin certainly sucks - there's been a persistent bug in
/src/winsup/cygwin/dwim.cc for as long as I can remember now! :)


    cheers, 
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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