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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:51:59 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Don Sharp <dwsharp AT iee DOT org>
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Subject: Re: cygcheck -c gives an Application Error
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On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Don Sharp wrote:

> [snip]
> It's definitely our friend textutils. Examining the output from the zcat
> piped through less shows that second and subsequent lines begin "^@",
> which is the likely cause of the problem. Removing the nulls allows
> "cygcheck -cv" to succeed.
>
> Thank you very much for your help in locating the source of the problem.
>
> Cheers
> Don Sharp

Glad it helped.  The interesting question, though, is how those NULs got
into the package listing in the first place...
	Igor
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