From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Haselberger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem with Emacs Info and gzipped files on Cygwin Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 15:27:21 +0100 Organization: UTA Telekom AG (Customer) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075041139 6720 80.91.224.253 (25 Jan 2004 14:32:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:32:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 25 15:32:10 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AklJ3-0001dh-01 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 15:32:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AklIU-0001iu-VP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:31:34 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newshunter!cosy.sbg.ac.at!newsfeed.utanet.at!news.netway.at!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.152.175.178 Original-X-Trace: newsreader1.utanet.at 1075040840 24801 212.152.175.178 (25 Jan 2004 14:27:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@uta.at Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Jan 2004 14:27:20 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7aMTaDH/ZAe8D+VY4hZeetbMsss= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120396 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16341 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16341 eMaXer writes: > Hi, I am using NTEmacs (GNU Emacs 21.3.1) on Windows XP, and Cygwin > 1.5.5-1. When I try to use Emacs Info, if the info file is gzipped an > error message window pops up with the following message : > > "The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction. > CS:0726 IP:ffd8 OP:fe ff 00 00 00 Choose 'Close' to terminate the application." > > The message window has the title "16 bit MS DOS Subsystem". > > The error happens in the function call-process-region. The following code > produces the same error: > > (call-process-region (point-min) end-of-gzipped > "gunzip" t t nil) > > (here between point-min and end-of-gzipped I have some text compressed with > gzip) > > When I use info from the Cygwin command line it works fine. I had the same problem and got the hint that the symlink from gunzip.exe to gzip.exe might be a problem. Removing the link and copying gzip.exe to gunzip.exe removed the problem. hth, tom