From: mdgauthi@rodan.acs.syr.EDU (Ah) Subject: Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE to afio users Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 09:59:08 EST
In article <48277157%fido.de@p100.f2003.n241.z2.fidonet.org> Andrew_Stevens@p100.f2003.n241.z2.fidonet.org (Andrew Stevens) writes:
>>As I posted in comp.os.linux.announce, the fix is to hack the makefile
>>to use compress instead of gzip. I dunno exactly what the problem is
>>yet, but it looks like gzip is not behaving itself when used as a
>>filter in this way.
>
>I.e. if compression failed to reduce size, the temporary file would be
>opened but not closed. I have uploaded to SunSite a fixed version of
>afio that corrects this and tidies up the handling of double-buffering.
>
Possibly, the problem results from the fact that compress will
not produce a file which is bigger than the original but gzip always compresses
(in the sense that it produces output) a file even if the archive is bigger
than the original. So, perhaps compress removed the file when compression
failed but gzip left it there and it ended up never getting closed.
-- -Matt, still looking for sigs in all the wrong places. :) Linux --the best thing ever to hit a PC.