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Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:30:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Dave Yost <Dave AT Yost DOT com>
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Subject: Re: gzip bug?
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On Wed, 12 May 2004, Dave Yost wrote:

> Z% tar cf - /usr/include /usr/i?86*/include | gzip > cygwin-include.tgz
> tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> Z% gunzip < cygwin-include.tgz | tar tf - > ,list
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
>
> gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
>
> gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> Z% which tar gzip gunzip
> /usr/bin/tar
> /usr/bin/gzip
> /usr/bin/gunzip
> Z% uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 dyw1 1.5.9(0.112/4/2) 2004-03-18 23:05 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
> Z% tar cf - /usr/include /usr/i?86*/include | bzip2 > cygwin-include.tbz
> tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> Z% bunzip2 < cygwin-include.tbz | tar tf - > ,list
> Z%

WFM(tm).  You could try following the problem reporting guidelines at

> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html

and provide more information about your system.  At a guess, this may be a
text vs. binary mount problem...
	Igor
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