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From: | GNU bug Tracking System |
Subject: | bug#70430: closed (VMS/VAX GZIP 1.3.12e deletes wrong file, doesn't honor file version number) |
Date: | Sat, 20 Apr 2024 23:55:01 +0000 |
Your message dated Sat, 20 Apr 2024 16:54:15 -0700 with message-id <447eb3f9-6d51-43da-8856-39342c90a3ec@cs.ucla.edu> and subject line Re: bug#70430: VMS/VAX GZIP 1.3.12e deletes wrong file, doesn't honor file version number has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #70430, regarding VMS/VAX GZIP 1.3.12e deletes wrong file, doesn't honor file version number to be marked as done. (If you believe you have received this mail in error, please contact help-debbugs@gnu.org.) -- 70430: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=70430 GNU Bug Tracking System Contact help-debbugs@gnu.org with problems
--- Begin Message ---Subject: VMS/VAX GZIP 1.3.12e deletes wrong file, doesn't honor file version number Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:10:43 -0400
Sorry if this is a known issue or has already been correctedNo need for a response.VMS/VAX 7.2 GZIP 1.3.12eCompresses FILE.DAT;1 and FILE.DAT;2 is deleted.$ DIRECTORY FILE.DAT*FILE.DAT;2FILE.DAT;1$ GZIP FILE.DAT;1$ DIRECTORY FILE.DAT*FILE.DAT;1FILE.DAT-GZ;1There are VMS native RMS library routines that will return the fully qualified file specification of an open file.There are VMS native RMS library routines that will delete a file when it is closed.Either option it should only delete the input file on success.Regards,
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--- Begin Message ---Subject: Re: bug#70430: VMS/VAX GZIP 1.3.12e deletes wrong file, doesn't honor file version number Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 16:54:15 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird On 2024-04-16 11:10, Mark Diaz wrote:Sorry if this is a known issue or has already been correctedYour bug report is about gzip 1.3.12 (2007-04-13). Unfortunately gzip's support for VMS was removed in gzip 1.9 (2018-01-07) and (as you're noticing) it wasn't really working even before that. Unless someone volunteers to spend quite a bit of time on it I doubt whether gzip will get working again on VMS, so I'm closing the bug report.
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