From: Scott Kay Subject: RE: Problems with pipes under b17 solved - thanks. 12 Dec 1996 06:19:10 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612121345.FAA23907.cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com> Reply-To: Scott Kay Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Thanks to Tim Endres for the explanation - I Tim> It is a known problem that piping into tar does not Tim> work, because the pipe operates in "ascii" mode which Tim> screws up the tar headers. You need to gunzip the all.tar.gz Tim> file then tar -xvf all.tar. In my previous message I also noted that I could not kill the rogue 'zcat' or 'gzip' process - again pilot error, I was using the win32-pid instead of the pid. It does work correctly with the pid. I guess the question that remains is why the change between b16 and b17. I "absolutely" maintain the b16 behavior of 'zcat all.tar.gz |tar xvf - ' worked fine (it was how I installed b17) with the b16 versions of 'zcat' and 'tar' while the b17 versions fail as noted above. Has the mode of the pipe operation somehow changed? Just curious and wondering if a change was made what was the rationale? -Scott -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scott Kay Powersoft Corp 561 Virginia Rd Concord, MA 01742 email: spkay@powersoft.com FAX: 508-287-2557 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".