gzip bug?

Dave Yost Dave@Yost.com
Wed May 12 19:18:00 GMT 2004


Z% tar cf - /usr/include /usr/i?86*/include | gzip > cygwin-include.tgz
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
Z% gunzip < cygwin-include.tgz | tar tf - > ,list 
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error

gunzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Z% which tar gzip gunzip
/usr/bin/tar
/usr/bin/gzip
/usr/bin/gunzip
Z% uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 dyw1 1.5.9(0.112/4/2) 2004-03-18 23:05 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin
Z% tar cf - /usr/include /usr/i?86*/include | bzip2 > cygwin-include.tbz
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
Z% bunzip2 < cygwin-include.tbz | tar tf - > ,list                   
Z% 

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