On Jun 8 14:44, Johnny B. Goode wrote: > We're using a windows 2000 based server running cygwin as a development > environment for porting our AIX-based software to the Windows platform. > > When we extract the compiled programs, we connect to the cygwin server > using rsh, passing a file list as input, returning a gzip'ed CPIO archive > as output using a command like: > > cat filelist | rsh cygserver -l logname "cd /directory ; cpio -oc | > gzip" > output.cpio.gz > > This is executed from an AIX server (running AIX 5.3), effectively packing > files from the filelist in a CGZ-archive that ends up back on the AIX > server. The problem is, however, that gzip on the cygwin server terminates > prematurely with the error "gzip: stdout: Invalid argument".
Did you try gzip -c ? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
