From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gunzip problem on Windows Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:28:40 +0200 Message-ID: <838wekawg7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <3914fd63-03de-4a50-a823-1ee5bac8b9a0@b15g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257496210 28288 80.91.229.12 (6 Nov 2009 08:30:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:30:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 06 09:30:03 2009 Return-path: 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 1N6KCo-0008L4-QZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:30:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35416 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N6KCn-0002cl-SY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:30:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N6KBR-0001zD-IX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:28:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N6KBN-0001y6-T6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:28:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58447 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N6KBN-0001y1-Mp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:28:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:59114) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N6KBN-00027v-7U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:28:33 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KSO00M00I6FZC00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:28:31 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.37.193]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KSO00MGLI7IPV10@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:28:31 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-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:69537 Archived-At: > From: Xah Lee > Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:23:52 -0800 (PST) > > Found a solution. Create a file name gunzip.bat, with this content: > > @echo off > gzip -d %1 As I wrote elsewhere, it's better to change %1 to %*, because then the batch file is not limited to a single argument. > I filed a bug report to FSF on this. #4867. I think this should still > considered a bug though. Considering it as a Windows OS problem isn't > very helpful in solving this. It's not a Windows problem, and it's not an Emacs problem, either. A program running on a certain OS cannot be reasonably expected to run shell scripts from another OS. Granted, a motivated volunteer can step forward and write the code for Emacs to support Unix shell scripts on Windows (and they will be most welcome), but until then, this is at best a feature request, not a bug.