I have a script I've run successfully for years on a Win XP system.
I just did a clean install of the whole OS and Cygwin from scratch. The script makes use of the 'split' utility using a command along the lines of: tar -czvfT file - | /usr/bin/split -b 10000 - foo.bar It formerly produced files in the form foo.bar.xa, foo.bar.xb, and so forth. Now it produces files in the form: foo.bar.xaaaaaaa... IOW, split appears to be appending extraneous characters onto the end of the line. Other facts noted: 1) The number of characters appended seems to vary depending on some magic having to do with either the left side of the | or the name of the destination file. 2) 'split' seems to behave if run directly on the command line rather than being the destination of a pipe. Ideas? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple