From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: eMaXer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem with Emacs Info and gzipped files on Cygwin Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:40:48 GMT Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075067352 23265 80.91.224.253 (25 Jan 2004 21:49:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:49:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 25 22:49:01 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Aks7p-0004W3-00 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:49:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Aks7B-0006YK-Sd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 16:48:21 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!xmission!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!news3.optonline.net!newshosting.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed.mountaincable.net!cyclone01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com!news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.50.46.118 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rogers.com Original-X-Trace: news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com 1075066848 65.50.46.118 (Sun, 25 Jan 2004 16:40:48 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 16:40:48 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120403 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16348 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16348 >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help From: eMaXer Date: >> Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:16:08 GMT >> >> Hi, I am using NTEmacs (GNU Emacs 21.3.1) on Windows XP, and >> Cygwin 1.5.5-1. When I try to use Emacs Info, if the info file is >> gzipped an error message window pops up with the following >> message : >> >> "The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction. CS:0726 >> IP:ffd8 OP:fe ff 00 00 00 Choose 'Close' to terminate the >> application." >> >> The message window has the title "16 bit MS DOS Subsystem". >> >> The error happens in the function call-process-region. The >> following code produces the same error: >> >> (call-process-region (point-min) end-of-gzipped "gunzip" t t nil) Eli> What port of gzip/gunzip do you have? If it's a DOS port, I'd Eli> try to replace it with a native Windows port. (I suspect that Eli> it's a DOS port because NTVDM, the NT Virtual DOS Machine, Eli> a.k.a. NT DOS emulator, does not kick in unless you run a DOS Eli> program.) Thanks for the hint. The port is the one that comes with the Cygwin distribution, I do not know if it is DOS or anything else. Removing the symbolic link from gunzip to gzip (as suggested by Thomas Haselberger) solved the problem. -- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was in a buffer, and the buffer was in Emacs.