>Number:         26251
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       gzip -f behaves differently from gnu gzip
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 11 22:17:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mark Davies
>Release:        NetBSD 2.0F
>Organization:
Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
>Environment:
	
	
System: NetBSD city-art.mcs.vuw.ac.nz 2.0F NetBSD 2.0F (MCS_WORKSTATION) #3: Fri Jul 9 12:51:39 NZST 2004 mark@delld6h3.mcs.vuw.ac.nz:/mnt/SAVE/build.obj/mnt/src/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/MCS_WORKSTATION i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	When given the -f option gzip complains if a .gz file you are about to 
	create already exists while gnu gzip just overwrites it.
	This is still true in revision 1.57 of gzip.c
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	% touch a a.gz
	% gzip -f a

	GNU version replaces a.gz, NetBSD version complains
	"gzip: could not create output: a.gz: File exists"
	and leaves the files alone.
	
>Fix:
	
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