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Re: More corruption [Re: Problems with ncftp]
- To: Frank McIngvale <frankm@HiWAAY.net>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: More corruption [Re: Problems with ncftp]
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 04:58:30 -0800 (PST)
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---Frank McIngvale <frankm@HiWAAY.net> wrote:
>
>
> Hm, it's apparently not just a problem with ncftp.
> The following also causes file corruption:
>
> $ bzip2 -9k bigfile
> $ bzip2 -dc bigfile.bz2 | bzip2 -9 > out.bz2
>
> bigfile = 21,301,412 bytes
> bigfile.bz2 = 3,338,162 bytes
> out.bz2 = 3,351,827 bytes (!!!)
>
> $ bzip2 -t out.bz2
>
> out.bz2: data integrity (CRC) error in data
>
8<
This problem is the pipe and redirection when they are set to text
mode. If before starting bash you `SET CYGWIN=binmode' this problem
will go away.
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