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1 total messages Started by Bruno Haible Sun, 26 Jul 1992 00:45

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Author: Bruno Haible
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 00:45

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Hi,

Two bugs of uncompress alias zcat (I'm using them in the Linux version):

- uncompress may crash when applied to a compressed file that underwent
  transmission errors.

- zcat may remove the file!
  I'm using a filesystem with filename length limited to 14 characters.
  So a file bigblablabla.tar.Z is called bigblablabla.t on this filesystem.
  When I execute
         zcat bigblablabla.t | tar -tf -
  and interrupt it with Ctrl-C,
  the file bigblablabla.t gets removed!
  I would understand that if I were using uncompress. But zcat (linked
  to uncompress) should NEVER remove a file!

I hope this bug report reaches the maintainers of GNU compress 4.0.1.

Bruno Haible
haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de

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