From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Will Parsons Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: file uncompression with native Windows Emacs Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 21:33:00 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: gyliamos@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481337339 2955 195.159.176.226 (10 Dec 2016 02:35:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 02:35:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (FreeBSD) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 10 03:35:31 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cFXVb-00085Z-MY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2016 03:35:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49881 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cFXVf-0007SR-GR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Dec 2016 21:35:35 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Trace: individual.net VXY9ZXSG8qsr8rUEu3Op1QhthSeu1peSY7BMGyqn1o+67drdBn Cancel-Lock: sha1:D5y7rFwCLKYNWysyxA9X0FUIh5A= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:219021 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111908 Archived-At: On Friday, 9 Dec 2016 10:10 AM -0500, B. T. Raven wrote: > On 12/8/2016 19:29, Will Parsons wrote: >> I'm confused about what I should expect for file uncompression with >> native Windows Emacs. I'm running: >> >> GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (i686-w64-mingw32) >> >> Curiously, if I visit a file compressed with bzip2, Emacs has no >> problem opening it, but if I visit a file compressed with gzip, Emacs >> complains that "Uncompression program 'gzip' not found". >> >> How is this supposed to work? I don't see any compression binaries >> packages in the Emacs installation directory, but I do have an >> ezwinports directory that contains bzip2 utilities, so perhaps Emacs >> is using that (but how does it know?) If ezwinports is the source of >> bzip2 for Emacs, I don't see similar gzip utilities, so I'm quite >> confused. > > ezwinports is probably in your path. Type "where bzip2.exe" to see if > this is so. A couple of gzip binaries for w32 are here: You're absolutely right. > http://www.gzip.org/ ;; put them one of them in the same directory > where bzip2 is now and emacs should find it. I downloaded a Windows version of the gzip utilities from gnuwin32 and put them in a directory in my PATH, and now Emacs has no difficulty opening them. I had expected a more "official" way of handling (de)compression, but I'm happy. Thanks! -- Will