I just upgraded to the latest CygWin when gzip stopped working. When I downgraded gzip *only*, gzip worked again.
I have CygWin installed with Unix text handling. $ gzip --stdout >foo rimi.bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/cdtworkspace/firmware/output $ gzip -t foo gzip: foo: invalid compressed data--format violated [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/cdtworkspace/firmware/output $ gzip --version gzip 1.3.5 (2002-09-30) Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation Copyright 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of this program under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. Compilation options: DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H HAVE_MEMORY_H HAVE_STRING_H HAVE_LSTAT SMV Written by Jean-loup Gailly. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/cdtworkspace/firmware/output $ gzip --version gzip 1.3.3 (2002-03-08) Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation Copyright 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of this program under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. Compilation options: DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H HAVE_MEMORY_H HAVE_STRING_H HAVE_LSTAT Written by Jean-loup Gailly. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/cdtworkspace/firmware/output $ gzip --stdout >foo rimi.bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/cdtworkspace/firmware/output $ gzip -t foo [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/cdtworkspace/firmware/output $ -- Øyvind Harboe http://www.zylin.com -- 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/