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Re: tar, zip, gzip troubles
- To: "Dr. Markus Hnicka" <Hoenicka at pbmail dot me dot kp dot dlr dot de>
- Subject: Re: tar, zip, gzip troubles
- From: Stipe Tolj <tolj at uni-duesseldorf dot de>
- Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 02:59:28 +0200
- CC: "'gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com'" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Department of Economical Computer Science, University of Cologne, Germany
- References: <A180BA9B9D0DD111B6AB00805FB89EF309BAA6@pbmail.me.kp.dlr.de>
> I'm quite new to the Cygnus tools (B19), but I have some experience with
> both Windows NT4 and Linux. I can unpack .tar.gz and .zip on NT and I
> can create .tar.gz on Linux and create .zip on NT (WinZip, InfoZip
> zip/unzip in cmd.exe). However, I can't properly pack or unpack using
> the Cygnus bash. All attempts result in invalid or unreadable archives.
> I've tested:
> - gzip/gunzip/tar shipped with the Cygnus tools
> - InfoZip zip/unzip ported to Cygnus
> - InfoZip zip/unzip compiled for WinNT
> The only packer that partially works is pkzip, but this fails to
> recursively search subdirectories.
> I've tested the whole thing on two NT boxes, and I've downloaded the
> usertools twice to be sure the distribution isn't corrupted.
> What am I doing wrong?
Hi Markus,
you may specify your setup and environment, so we can get a clue why that
happens. I had never problems with the Cygwin32 (CDK, not usertool package)
tar and gzip utils.
Regards,
Stipe
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Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de>
Cygwin32 Porting Project
Department of Economical Computer Science
University of Cologne, Germany
http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~tolj
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