bin/85712: uncompress(1) program emits bogus "overwrite?" prompt

Gary W. Swearingen garys at opusnet.com
Sun Sep 4 11:00:36 PDT 2005


The following reply was made to PR bin/85712; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: garys at opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/85712: uncompress(1) program emits bogus "overwrite?"
 prompt
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 10:53:59 -0700

 A similar and likely-related problem occurs with compress(1),
 which should be considered as part of this PR.
 
 $ d yy*
 1060112 -rw-r-----  1 jojo  jojo  - 23140 Sep  4 09:18:03 2005 yyy.Z
 1060544 -rw-r-----  1 jojo  jojo  - 11135 Sep  4 08:23:05 2005 yyy.bak
 1060967 -rw-r-----  1 jojo  jojo  - 23140 Sep  4 10:43:49 2005 yyy.un
 $ compress yyy
 overwrite yyy.Z? y
 compress: yyy: No such file or directory
 $ d yy*
 1060112 -rw-r-----  1 jojo  jojo  - 23140 Sep  4 09:18:03 2005 yyy.Z
 1060544 -rw-r-----  1 jojo  jojo  - 11135 Sep  4 08:23:05 2005 yyy.bak
 1060967 -rw-r-----  1 jojo  jojo  - 23140 Sep  4 10:43:49 2005 yyy.un


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