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: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:56:51 +0200 Message-ID: <83my32b2cc.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1257357487 11469 80.91.229.12 (4 Nov 2009 17:58:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:58:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 04 18:58:00 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 1N5k7L-0002a7-Vz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:58:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51379 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N5k7L-0005Cd-IZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:57:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N5k6x-0005BE-HD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:57:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N5k6s-00058W-VE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:57:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50709 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N5k6s-00058R-Nr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:57:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:48731) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N5k6s-0001PV-7e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:57:30 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KSL00I00J0TUB00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:56:45 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.37.193]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KSL00ECXJ6KUYC0@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:56:45 +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:69478 Archived-At: > From: Xah Lee > 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.