Re: [h-e-w] Re: Fwd: Installing emacs

[Ismael Valladolid Torres]

Olive escribe:
> Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
> >Power archiver probably did the wrong thing.  My guess is it did the gunzip
> >only and left you with a tar file.   It really is better to use gunzip and 
> >tar
> >from the command line rather than attempting to use the windows tools.
> >
> >ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/gzip-1.2.4.msdos.exe
> >ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.12.msdos.exe
> 
>  think this is a MS-DOS version. These utilities will not handle long 
> filenames and will corrupt the software. Use the utilities found at:
> 
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/emacs/windows/utilities/i386/
> 
> 
> 

Or go for 7-Zip which does the correct thing and it's open sourced.

Cordially, Ismael