compress error staus

[butterfm]

Hi,

I'm using the MKSToolkit compress tool (on win2000) and am getting an error status ($?) of 9 when I compress a tar file.

I assume that this version of compress throws out the same error values as the compress tool on all real UNIX platforms.

Does anybody know what the error status 9 actually means. I can't find a description anywhere.

I can uncompress the file OK so the error is not corrupting the file, but I'm a bit uncomfortable sending the file to customers when it's not compressed cleanly.

Thanks, M.

 

[butterfm]

If anybody is interested $?=9 looks like an error status thrown out if the resulting compressed file is bigger than the original uncompressed file.

M.