From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem with Emacs Info and gzipped files on Cygwin Date: 26 Jan 2004 07:58:28 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075096771 19256 80.91.224.253 (26 Jan 2004 05:59:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 05:59:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 26 06:59:24 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 1AkzmO-0004R3-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 06:59:24 +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 1Akzkj-00059b-AA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 00:57:41 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AkzkP-00059V-Gz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 00:57:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Akzjs-0004rA-Un for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 00:57:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Akzjs-0004kp-5d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 00:56:48 -0500 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from eMaXer on Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:40:48 GMT) 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:16356 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16356 > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help > From: eMaXer > Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:40:48 GMT > > Removing the symbolic link from gunzip to gzip (as suggested by Thomas > Haselberger) solved the problem. Cygwin-style symlinks are only understood by Cygwin-compiled programs. Your Emacs is not a Cygwin program; to it, a symlink is just a weird data file. I guess the Windows shell tried to execute it as a DOS .com image or something. As long as you use a non-Cygwin Emacs, I'd suggest to find all symlinks to programs on your machine and replace them with copies, like you did with gunzip.