Re: uncompress-on-load uses 'uncompress' needs to use 'gunzip'

[Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>]

On Aug 7, 10:23 am, Edward Hyer <ejh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For whatever reason (don't get me started), 'uncompress' is deprecated
> on our new systems. However, we still have loads of .Z files, and when
> I try to load one in emacs, I get
>
> /bin/sh: uncompress: command not found
>
> How can I get emacs to use gunzip instead?

do you mean pressing Z in dired on files ending in .Z to get it to
call gunzip instead?

as far as i know, dired choose program based on the file name ending.
I haven't looked into, but afaik it's hard to change this suffix/
program association as judged in posts here in the past year. (i
myself like to be able to press Z or some other key to use zip/unzip.)

hope someone can help on this.

but in anycase, it is very easy to convert all your .Z files to .gzip.
Just write a shell program to decompress then compress with gzip, no?

  Xah
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