Re: gunzip problem on Windows

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 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.

Why not just rename the existing gunzip script to gunzip.bat?

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA