bug#70430: closed (VMS/VAX GZIP 1.3.12e deletes wrong file, doesn't honor file version number)

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--- 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 corrected

No need for a response.

VMS/VAX 7.2 GZIP 1.3.12e

Compresses FILE.DAT;1 and FILE.DAT;2 is deleted.

$ DIRECTORY FILE.DAT*

  FILE.DAT;2

  FILE.DAT;1

$ GZIP FILE.DAT;1

$ DIRECTORY FILE.DAT*

  FILE.DAT;1

  FILE.DAT-GZ;1

There 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,

Mark Diaz
mark@markdiaz.biz

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> On 2024-04-16 11:10, Mark Diaz wrote:
> > Sorry if this is a known issue or has already been corrected
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> Your 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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