Is this a bug or are there known limits that "compress" has? (Besides being older and less used than --gzip or --bzip2.)
$ wget ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.90.tar.gz # get an example file to compress $ md5sum tar-1.22.90.tar.gz 499cceb9d2c2b02421ee08e2e61fb233 tar-1.22.90.tar.gz $ tar --create --file TAR --compress tar-1.22.90.tar.gz tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Both tar-1.22.90 and tar-1.15.1 show this problem. I haven't yet identified what kind of files cause this. It may be a file length issue. Michael D. Adams
