On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 02:25:07PM +0100, Ilya Pobelov wrote: >>>After installing cygwin-1.5.6-1 files created with >>>tar -c <names> | bzip2 > file.tar.bz2 >>>were corrupted (bzip2 reports CRC cheking error when trying to unpack). >>>With cygwin-1.5.6-1 such command works as expected. > >I am very sorry, I made a missprint. Everything worked fine with >previous version cygwin-1.5.5-1 > >>The tar command + pipe that you specify would not produce a compressed >>tar archive since tar -c <names> would not produce anything on stdout >>for bzip2 to compress.
Actually, I was wrong here. This would work fine. Apologies. >bash-2.05b$ tar -c work | bzip2 > work.tar.bz2 >bash-2.05b$ bzip2 -t work.tar.bz2 >bzip2: work.tar.bz2: data integrity (CRC) error in data > >You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover >data from undamaged sections of corrupted files. > >bash-2.05b$ rm work.tar.bz2 >bash-2.05b$ tar -cf - work | bzip2 > work.tar.bz2 >bash-2.05b$ bzip2 -t work.tar.bz2 >bzip2: work.tar.bz2: data integrity (CRC) error in data > >You can use the `bzip2recover' program to attempt to recover >data from undamaged sections of corrupted files. Sorry, but as previously indicated, I can't duplicate this. See http://cygwin.com/problems.html for a description of how to report problems that might help. If I were you, I would be comparing the difference between the working and non-working cases, like is the file size different? I'd also try the most recent snapshot: http://cygwin.com/snapshots.html . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/