From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Davin Pearson" <davin.pearson@gmail.com> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Trouble getting archives to load as archives Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 14:57:14 +1200 Message-ID: <8d7d1e6d0807041957n679449f4l71a08f5394f749a3@mail.gmail.com> References: <f1ce82e6-59be-4302-888e-c4e7a74cf9ff@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <mailman.14225.1215208751.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> <c07682cb-df1a-4654-96e5-96b61ecc3460@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> <486EDB25.5060204@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215226669 4349 80.91.229.12 (5 Jul 2008 02:57:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 02:57:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: bernardo.bacic@pobox.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 05 04:58:34 2008 Return-path: <help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org> 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 1KExyq-0004xx-Uj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:58:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44384 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KExy0-0006gQ-3K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:57:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KExxg-0006fk-79 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:57:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KExxe-0006fA-P9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:57:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36342 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KExxe-0006f7-N8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:57:18 -0400 Original-Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.46.158]:54810) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <davin.pearson@gmail.com>) id 1KExxe-0000dj-Hg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:57:18 -0400 Original-Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 9so592465ywk.66 for <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:57:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Owwvq1MPFMc0XMsWNDGYOcrNVaJ3n2Z8L3XUe3CE/0Y=; b=q5koFAxpRIJ8c9JJfHg8z/eFcIdRz1FHLuWesfG/TWp6G9Isrqi/WH/EinEcAImNuN jPFPqytOyw0JfldZBCZ1Es+9vVFA39mQXUnYSeACqTM8uEJB/B3rs7Z5KW15zzPdsBez KS9WP5tO6ku2r5lYNn2MklZs3TW4MyvBGHOAg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=aJOYGJHafPEZ/TT4ZyZKiErG7RxyVJH3PCGUd8CdZaMGscqXmSLV18oP+7RwxGsaVY lrtH1RolkVNKYl1pQUP/8Nv1HooJx/WUuBhBZHg35GHQo+okiVEDXpeytMnCJb3u2Zpt GopUkeLqjjM6wxW6C6GO8i4l8VTy3y+ffm3cM= Original-Received: by 10.151.147.17 with SMTP id z17mr3126447ybn.74.1215226634708; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:57:14 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.192.12 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 19:57:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <486EDB25.5060204@pobox.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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 <help-gnu-emacs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/help-gnu-emacs> List-Post: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs>, <mailto:help-gnu-emacs-request@gnu.org?subject=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:55254 Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help/55254> 2008/7/5 Bernardo Bacic <bernardo.bacic@pobox.com>: > a few things may be worth checking: > * what is the value of auto-mode-alist when you hit C-h v auto-mode-alist > * does the *Messages* buffer (C-h e) show any errors when you open an > archive file > * are you really opening TAR/GZ files as opposed to tar/gz? Here is the error when I tried to load a tar file: File mode specification error: (error "Buffer format not recognized") Here is the error when I tried to load a gz file: Loading jka-compr...done uncompressing allegro-1-connect-four-20070702-165627.tar.gz...done File mode specification error: (error "Buffer format not recognized") Note that I really mean tar file not TAR file and gz file not GZ file. Thanks for your help. -- Sincerely and kindest regards, Davin. Davin Pearson http://www.davinpearson.com