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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Workshop to save M$ Windows users - help needed
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 15:41:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h7du2uml.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADs++6jX1awtv4WvPp4Rv+P5NTei0VH1ZFXRBq4eRYdxdPxQdw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Eduardo Ochs on Wed, 6 Oct 2021 01:50:00 -0300)

> From: Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2021 01:50:00 -0300
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
>   wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/wget-1.11.4-1-bin.zip
>   unzip wget-1.11.4-1-bin.zip
> 
>   file bin/wget.exe
>   # bin/wget.exe: PE32 executable (console) Intel 80386 (stripped to
>   # external PDB), for MS Windows

That's a 32-bit build of (an old version) of wget.

> I unpacked the .zip in my machine, uploaded the wget.exe to a
> temporary place in my homepage, and my friend downloaded it with my
> function `ee-very-primitive-wget0'.  The download worked - the file
> was not corrupted, it seems - but when he tried to execute that
> wget.exe he got a message saying that that file was not compatible
> with the version of Windows that we was using - which is "Microsoft
> Windows 11 Home Single Language".

I guess the user will have to turn on some backward compatibility
settings for that to work.

Alternatively, download a newer wget.exe.  I think the wget project
publishes a pre-built binary?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-06 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-03  4:26 Workshop to save M$ Windows users - help needed Eduardo Ochs
2021-10-03  5:45 ` Jean Louis
2021-10-03  7:59   ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-10-03  9:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-03 10:19   ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-10-03 10:40     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-03 19:15       ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-10-03 19:44         ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-10-04  3:06           ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-10-04 17:34             ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-10-04 18:29               ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-10-06  4:50                 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-10-06  5:10                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-10-06 12:41                   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-10-07 16:32                 ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-10-07 17:52                   ` Tomas Hlavaty
2021-10-04 18:50         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-06  4:19           ` Eduardo Ochs
2021-10-03  9:36 ` Tomas Hlavaty

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