On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:39:41PM -0400, Hugh Secker-Walker wrote: >> >Yes, in my rush to try out the modified dd I did not notice that >> >cgf had quietly fixed the binary issue in gzip. So, thank you to >> >cgf for so quickly fixing the original problem. >> >> It wasn't "quietly": >> >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2007-07/msg00028.html >> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00615.html >> >> You just weren't paying attention. > >I had read both of those. Neither of those, nor the referenced >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00680.html or >http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2007-04/msg00041.html >mentions a fix for text/binary mode of files. So AFAICT that >particular issue was quietly fixed.
No, actually, it was a typo in the announcement. Somehow I managed to keep a URL from my previous announcement in that message. I did mention that I was going to update gzip here, however: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-07/msg00611.html Sorry for the confusion. cgf -- 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/
