Re: redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

[Bill Lebow <blebow at alum dot mit dot edu>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Mar 11 13:12, William Lebow wrote:
> > echo foo | tee -a test3.txt : terminal output is okay but test3.text
> > starts with 3 characters of garbage before the string foo
> >
> > echo foo | tee test4.txt : terminal output is okay and test4.txt is 
okay too
> >
> > So "tee -a" has the same issue as ">>" when creating a new file.
> >
> > BTW, I believe that the garbage characters that precede the text is 
an encrypted
> > version of the text in the file. This Credant software is 
protecting my txt files
> > by encrypting them.

> And it's doing something blatantly wrong. Quite obviously, Cygwin
> only writes the data once. If it's in the file twice, once encrypted
> and once unencrypted, then this Credant software does not understand
> native NT writing with append mode(*). You should report this as a bug.
>
> Corinna

Corinna, I can't argue with anything you say, and I have reported it to 
the other
vendor. That said, this wasn't a problem with earlier versions of cygwin 
so I thought
maybe there is something that can be done on the cygwin side.

Thanks

-- Bill

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple