gzip 1.3.1 messy output

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Thu May 17 00:06:00 GMT 2001


On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:05:12AM +0200, Matthias Kring wrote:
>Thanks to Gerrit P. Haase!
>
>I did not set CYGWIN= ...tty...
>(but strange anyway, because the new gzip 1.3.1 is the first program
>that seems to produce ugly output w/o this setting)

gzip sets its stdout to binmode by default.  This results in the output
that you're seeing.

Btw, it's not "gzip 1.3.1".  The Cygwin version is 1.3.1.  Gzip has its
own version.

cgf

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