From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: despen@verizon.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacsW32 can't find gunzip Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:11:56 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247409668 6109 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2009 14:41:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:41:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 12 16:41:01 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 1MQ0Ef-0001Qu-7c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:41:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46308 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MQ0Ee-0007fA-8m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:41:00 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nwrddc02.gnilink.net.POSTED!d15a3661!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:u18IEo1xQiZXM3m65YtgCVqXypc= Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.105.221.162 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net Original-X-Trace: nwrddc02.gnilink.net 1247407916 74.105.221.162 (Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:11:56 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:11:56 EDT Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170785 comp.emacs:98385 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:65984 Archived-At: Xah Lee writes: > when using emacsW32, in dired, i press Z to uncompress a file, but i > got this error: > > apply: Searching for program: no such file or directory, gunzip > > any idea how to fix that? > > I have cygwin installed. “which gunzip” shows “/usr/bin/gunzip”. > Manually gunning gunzip or gzip -d with shell-command works fine. I don't use Windows but see if the solution this user used will work in your case: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emacs/browse_thread/thread/1daa8c36fdae1a70