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RE: Problem with gzip
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: "'Cygwin List'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:50:08 +0100
- Subject: RE: Problem with gzip
> -----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
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