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Date:      Wed, 3 Apr 2002 20:12:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
To:        vijay singh <vijay@IPRG.nokia.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>
Subject:   Re: gzip: stdout: Broken pipe
Message-ID:  <20020403201052.V68910-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
In-Reply-To: <3CAB8450.DF73B355@iprg.nokia.com>

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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, vijay singh wrote:
> Hello, the gzip utility sometimes prints this message while uncompressing a tgz file. I found that this is really harmless, but is there is a fix for this available somewhere? Some scripts catch the return code and precess it as an error. I am using a 2.x based FreeBSD system. Kindly cc me in the reply.
> br, vijay

Why not use gunzip instead of gzip?  Sometimes *.tgz files are confused by
the OS as destined for *tape archives* and hence stdout gets confused as
such!

Can you repost with a "script" of what occurs when? (i.e. include your
command line and the resulting errors as they appear)

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