From: colin@fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp (Colin Peters) Subject: gzip corruption (b14) 28 Oct 1996 20:46:19 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199610290255.LAA11521.cygnus.gnu-win32@bird.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp> Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-reply-to: James Macnicol's message of Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:24:33 +1100 <199610280124.MAA19757@student.anu.edu.au> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com > Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:24:33 +1100 > From: James Macnicol > > I've just tar'ed some directories up to archive them with like > > tar cvfz foo.tar.gz foo > > where foo is a directory. > > I've now discovered that all these files are corrupted (and I've deleted As is my wont I will mention a possibly related, but really quite distant problem. Using the tar that came with b16 under the command line (not bash) on Win 95 will not properly handle the '-r' option to append files to the tar archive. It replaces them instead. I downloaded a different tar port from CICA and used that instead. Colin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colin Peters ------------ Saga Univ. Dept. of Information Science, Saga, JAPAN http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/home.html - colin@bird.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp コリン ピーターズ - 佐賀大学理工学部情報科学科情報基礎学講座 - Current favorite kanji: 晴れ 芝生 - - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".