Re: NetBSD 5 strangeness

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

I wrote:

> john%ziaspace.com@localhost wrote:
> 
> > I've been trying to figure out why untarring gzipped tar files doesn't 
> > work on netbsd-5 on my VAXstation 4000/60 (it worked fine with RC2):
> > 
> > tar xzpf base.tgz
> > tar: Cannot identify format. Searching...
> > ^C
> > tar: Signal caught, cleaning up.
> > tar: unknown format, 32256 bytes skipped in 3 secs (10752 bytes/sec)
> 
> It looks pipe on vax is broken (at least on simh).
> 
> The following simple command also fails:
> # gzip -c /netbsd | zcat > /dev/null
> zcat: unknown compression format

This should be fixed in -current and 5.0_RC4
by patch provided by Michael L. Hitch. (PR port-vax/41139)

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Izumi Tsutsui