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Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 06:07:29 -0800
From: Brad Bell <bradbell AT seanet DOT com>
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Subject: Cygwin not honoring setmode
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This problem has been discussed before under the subject heading 
"Problem with gzip". In particular, the message
   http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00494.html
appears to state that a problem with "cygwin not honoring setmode" was 
fixed.

On Saturday, October 30, 2004, I downloaded and installed the current 
version of the Cygwin. It appears to me that this problem is back It is 
hard to work around this problem when using automake and autoconf, which 
assume piping into gzip works properly.

The following shell script demonstrates the problem in my copy of the 
October 30, 2004 version of Cygwin:
=========================
# Running the following program
#
echo "test" > Test.dat
tar -cf  Test.tar Test.dat
cat Test.tar  | gzip - -c > Test.tar.gz
rm Test.tar
gunzip Test.tar.gz
#
# produces the following output
#
# gunzip: Test.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated
=========================

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