From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gunzip problem on Windows Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:35:19 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <573231c2-4547-46f2-a5ec-f7adabb553ec@a21g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257459474 6706 80.91.229.12 (5 Nov 2009 22:17:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 22:17:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 05 23:17:46 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N6AeH-0003PX-I3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:17:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40282 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N6AeG-0006de-Vi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:17:45 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a21g2000yqc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1257449719 726 127.0.0.1 (5 Nov 2009 19:35:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 19:35:19 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a21g2000yqc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.195.27 Safari/532.0, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:174439 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:09:13 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69521 Archived-At: On Nov 4, 9:56=A0am, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Xah Lee > > Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:32:36 -0800 (PST) > > > when using emacs on Windows, when in dired, when i press Z on a file > > that's gzip compressed, emacs tells me: > > 'gunzip' is not recognized as an internal or external command, > > > the problem is apparently that emacs won't recognize the gunzip shell > > script without the exe suffix. (the gunzip is in the same dir as > > gzip.exe) But if i rename gunzip to gunzip.exe, but Windows complain > > that the file is not a exe format. > > > How to solve this problem? > > It might work to copy gzip.exe into gunzip.exe. > > Failing that, create a batch file gunzip.bat that does the same as the > shell script gunzip, and put it somewhere on your Path. can you show the .bat syntax that does the same as bash? am not familiar with cmd.exe much. Thanks. Xah