From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 'gzip -d' instead of 'gunzip' Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:39:11 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224783680 366 80.91.229.12 (23 Oct 2008 17:41:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:41:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 23 19:42:21 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1Kt4CT-0003nR-BT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:42:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56937 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kt4BN-0007o9-Qu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:41:13 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.185.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1224783552 22003 127.0.0.1 (23 Oct 2008 17:39:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:39:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o40g2000prn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.185.159; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163749 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:59089 Archived-At: On Oct 23, 4:02 am, Leo wrote: > Hi there, > > How to tell emacs to use 'gzip -d' instead of 'gunzip' whenever > un-compressing in dired etc.? Thank you. i'm not sure there's a user-level way. I've been wanting to make it to use ditto (which creates zip) on OSX. I suppose on the Windows platform, people may want to make it zip. btw, i thought =E2=80=9Cgzip -d=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cgunzip=E2=80=9D makes= no difference in their result? Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84