From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gene Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: file uncompression with native Windows Emacs Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:13:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1481670929 25041 195.159.176.226 (13 Dec 2016 23:15:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:15:29 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 23:13:10 +0000 User-Agent: G2/1.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 14 00:15:26 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 1cGwIA-00066q-2j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:15:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44546 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cGwIE-0003dH-G7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:15:30 -0500 X-Received: by 10.157.44.155 with SMTP id p27mr26570266otb.78.1481670790380; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:13:10 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.157.44.172 with SMTP id p41mr6525900otb.6.1481670790309; Tue, 13 Dec 2016 15:13:10 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!n6no42232qtd.0!news-out.google.com!m27ni446qtf.1!nntp.google.com!n6no42228qtd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.255.103.23; posting-account=xePGxQoAAAAgJalA5zaHmrGIX9Wk_gLW Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.255.103.23 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:219025 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:111945 Archived-At: On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 8:29:07 PM UTC-5, Will Parsons wrote: > I'm confused about what I should expect for file uncompression with > native Windows Emacs. I'm running: >=20 > GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (i686-w64-mingw32) >=20 > 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". >=20 > 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. >=20 > --=20 > Will Though this may look-like or seem-like something specific, if you use GNU E= macs for Windows long enough you'll discover other problems arising from un= ixoid development and operational environment of Emacs. So if you'd rather fix the problem systemically rather than piecemeal as yo= u encounter problems you might want to consider installing Cygwin then usin= g the package cygwin-mount to point to the repository of unixoid apps/progr= ams/filters which emacs had available to it during it's formative years and= pretty much retains to date. Here's a snippet from my package list: cygwin-mount 20131111.2146 installed Teach EMACS about = cygwin styles and mount points Another incidental advantage of having cygwin installed is that you can run= emacs under cygwin if/when you want or need to use emacs in a Unix-like en= vironment, for example with BASH running as a shell in a buffer. If you DO opt to install Cygwin I recommend that you follow Steve Yagi(sp)'= s advice and NOT install it in c:/cygwin, but rather directly in c:/ so the= executables will end up in c:/bin/ I've encountered the same problems you have with decompression. I've often just launched GNU emacs for cygwin from cygwin's terminal then e= ffortlessly converted those compressed files, exited cygwin, then accessed = the decompressed files via GNU emacs for Windows.