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geekmaster · 05-11-2012, 06:45 PM

The lesson here is to be careful which tools you use to extract a tarball (.tar.gz) file. We cannot trust winrar and we cannot trust 7-zip (at least on the windows versions). They insert windows carriage-return characters into script files when extracting them on a windows host PC, which makes them not run correctly when used on a linux machine like a kindle.

I have extracted linux scripts with winrar and 7-zip in the past (16.3 bazillion times, as I recall) and I do not remember ever seeing this problem before. This is really confusing now, and apparently knc1 has tools that misbehave like this too. It sucks when you cannot trust your tools.

05-11-2012, 06:45 PM	#101
geekmaster Carpe diem, c'est la vie. Posts: 6,433 Karma: 10773670 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Multiverse 6627A Device: K1 to PW3	The lesson here is to be careful which tools you use to extract a tarball (.tar.gz) file. We cannot trust winrar and we cannot trust 7-zip (at least on the windows versions). They insert windows carriage-return characters into script files when extracting them on a windows host PC, which makes them not run correctly when used on a linux machine like a kindle. I have extracted linux scripts with winrar and 7-zip in the past (16.3 bazillion times, as I recall) and I do not remember ever seeing this problem before. This is really confusing now, and apparently knc1 has tools that misbehave like this too. It sucks when you cannot trust your tools. Last edited by geekmaster; 05-11-2012 at 07:07 PM.