From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacsW32 can't find gunzip
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:29:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ab39snrt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c5b67be8-6a93-4a06-97bf-b2cbce28a1ca@a39g2000pre.googlegroups.com>
> From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:14:33 -0700 (PDT)
>
> when using emacsW32, in dired, i press Z to uncompress a file, but i
> got this error:
>
> apply: Searching for program: no such file or directory, gunzip
>
> any idea how to fix that?
Make sure gzip.exe is in some directory mentioned in exec-path (inside
Emacs) or in Path (outside Emacs).
> I have cygwin installed. “which gunzip” shows “/usr/bin/gunzip”.
There's no such thing as "/usr/bin/gunzip" on Windows: every absolute
file name must begin with a drive letter or two slashes. Cygwin hides
the drive letter (and possibly also a few leading directories) to
pretend there's a Posix-standard directory tree on your machine, but
that's an illusion that only Cygwin programs can share. EmacsW32,
being a native Windows program, cannot.
> Manually gunning gunzip or gzip -d with shell-command works fine.
Probably because your shell is set to the Cygwin shell. But Z invokes
gzip via call-process, which bypasses the shell, so you need to play
by the Windows rules.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-12 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-12 5:14 emacsW32 can't find gunzip Xah Lee
2009-07-12 14:11 ` despen
2009-07-12 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.2378.1247426988.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-13 0:58 ` Xah Lee
2009-07-13 3:58 ` Will Willis
[not found] ` <mailman.2399.1247457507.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-13 5:19 ` Xah Lee
2009-07-13 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
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