Re: Problem with Emacs Info and gzipped files on Cygwin

[eMaXer <zxy@yxz67483.com>]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

    >> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help From: eMaXer <zxy@yxz67483.com> Date:
    >> Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:16:08 GMT
    >> 
    >> 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)

    Eli> What port of gzip/gunzip do you have?  If it's a DOS port, I'd
    Eli> try to replace it with a native Windows port.  (I suspect that
    Eli> it's a DOS port because NTVDM, the NT Virtual DOS Machine,
    Eli> a.k.a. NT DOS emulator, does not kick in unless you run a DOS
    Eli> program.)

Thanks for the hint. The port is the one that comes with the Cygwin
distribution, I do not know if it is DOS or anything else.

Removing the symbolic link from gunzip to gzip (as suggested by Thomas
Haselberger) solved the problem.

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