From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: B17 possible bug 7 Dec 1996 21:05:37 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612080421.UAA00971.cygnus.gnu-win32@cirdan.cygnus.com> Content-Type: text Original-To: garp@opustel.com (Keith Gary Boyce) Original-Cc: noer@cygnus.com, gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: from "Keith Gary Boyce" at Dec 7, 96 06:28:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Length: 1120 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Keith Gary Boyce wrote: > > WHen attempting to run command in bash > gunzip -d < all.tar.gz|tar -tvf - > or > gunzip -d -c all.tar.gz |tar -tvf - > > both commands get error Sadly, there are still plenty of unresolved text vs. binary issues some of which are *very* tricky. In this case, I think it is likely that the pipe is corrupting the result of the gunzip. I have tested the install method as described in the readme doc and it worked for me under Windows 95 (copy /b'ing the split files, gunzipping the result, and then untarring the resulting archive). If you change things slightly (using cat.exe instead of copy or trying to do more than one step at a time), you may run into trouble. I thought switching to tar from zip would be useful because I thought it would enable me to create a clean install process. If the way I did things in beta 17 was a step backward I have no issues with switching back to something closer to what I did for the last beta. I just really like the idea of eliminating the common problem of people not having the perfect unzip program... -- Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".