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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:16:32 -0500 (CDT)
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On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote:

> I have a problem with gzip.
[snip]
> Cygwin 1.5.5(0.94/3/2)
[snip]
> $ gunzip logs.tar.gz
>
> gunzip: logs.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error
>
> gunzip: logs.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--length error

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2004-01/msg00020.html:

- Fix problem which manifested as cygwin not honoring setmode, resulting
in programs like gzip and bzip2 not doing the right thing when redirected
to a text-mode mount.  (Christopher Faylor)

Please try a recent release/snapshot before posting bug reports.
It might also help to search the archives.  Thanks.

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Brian Ford
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FlightSafety International
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