From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gunzip problem on Windows
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:56:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83my32b2cc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b0333232-d45f-418a-b5df-ccd1fd7a4363@x25g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
> From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:32:36 -0800 (PST)
>
> when using emacs on Windows, when in dired, when i press Z on a file
> that's gzip compressed, emacs tells me:
> 'gunzip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>
> the problem is apparently that emacs won't recognize the gunzip shell
> script without the exe suffix. (the gunzip is in the same dir as
> gzip.exe) But if i rename gunzip to gunzip.exe, but Windows complain
> that the file is not a exe format.
>
> How to solve this problem?
It might work to copy gzip.exe into gunzip.exe.
Failing that, create a batch file gunzip.bat that does the same as the
shell script gunzip, and put it somewhere on your Path.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-04 16:32 gunzip problem on Windows Xah Lee
2009-11-04 17:34 ` Andreas Politz
2009-11-04 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-11-05 14:26 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-11-05 19:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.10136.1257448020.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-10 14:42 ` Sébastien Vauban
2018-05-01 9:55 ` byron.cordova.mora
[not found] ` <mailman.10126.1257431414.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-05 19:38 ` Xah Lee
2009-11-05 13:22 ` Friedrich Dominicus
2009-11-05 19:37 ` Xah Lee
2009-11-05 19:34 ` Xah Lee
2009-11-05 20:23 ` Xah Lee
2009-11-06 8:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.10068.1257357458.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-11-05 19:35 ` Xah Lee
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