From: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk (Richard Donkin) Subject: b17.1 bug in tar --gzip 22 Dec 1996 07:52:14 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Reply-To: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Cc: richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com With GNU tar 1.11.8 and gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93), as bundled in b17.1, on Win95, I get a corrupt tar archive from the following command: tar --gzip cvf foo.tar.gz foo.txt where foo.txt is a 9MB text file. Doing a separate tar then gzip works fine. Tar tvf on the original file says it is corrupt, as does Winzip 6.2 which also understands tar.gz files, so it is definitely on the gzip and tar create side not the gunzip and tar unpack side. I don't get this error on much smaller files, and unpacking large tar.gz files works OK (in fact, better than Winzip). Richard -- richardd@cix.compulink.co.uk http://www.inside-edge.co.uk/ Inside Edge Consultancy Client/Server and Internet Applications PGP key from: pgp-public-keys@keys.pgp.net -or- http://www.four11.com/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".