gzip bug

[Brian Dessent]

"David L. Morgan" wrote:

>         I have uncovered a bug in the version of gzip currently shipping with
> cygwin (1.3.5-2).  I have a binary file that was compressed with gzip 1.3.3
> from around 820MB to around 260MB.  If I gunzip the file using the default
> invocation:
> 
> gunzip file.gz
> 
> ... everything works fine.  If I use the stdout invocation:
> 
> gunzip -c file.gz > file
> 
> ... the resulting file differs from the original.
> 
> Gunzip does not report any errors.  A cursory Google search does not yield any
> relevant bug reports or resolutions.

You didn't include enough information.  Cygcheck output?  Are you using
text or binary mounts?  What shell do you use?  It wouldn't happen to be
zsh?  Please see this thread from last week:
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00989.html>

Brian

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