Re: can't open 0.10.40 tarball of gettext

[Bruno Haible]

prapp writes:
> Yesterday I found that "tar -tzf ..." failed partway
> through the gettext 0.10.40 tarball (and I went
> & fetched a new copy from the digex mirror, and then
> one from the ftp.gnu.org site, and the problem
> reoccurred with both), and "tar -xzf ..." also failed.
> ....
> I'm using tar & gzip on a cygwin distribution

Does "gunzip gettext-0.10.40.tar.gz ; tar -tf gettext-0.10.40.tar"
work for you?

If so, it might be a wrong setting of binary mode in either gzip's
standard output or tar's pipe input, or it might be a broken handling
of pipes in the operating system (Woe32 and cygwin.dll).

If not, then you know which program to look at: gzip or tar.

Bruno