Re: gunzip problem on Windows

[Andreas Politz]

Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> when using emacs on Windows, when in dired, when i press Z on a file
> that's gzip compressed, emacs tells me:
> 'gunzip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
>
> the problem is apparently that emacs won't recognize the gunzip shell
> script without the exe suffix. (the gunzip is in the same dir as
> gzip.exe) But if i rename gunzip to gunzip.exe, but Windows complain
> that the file is not a exe format.
>
> How to solve this problem?

Maybe install a bourne shell.

$ cat gunzip

#!/bin/sh
PATH=${GZIP_BINDIR-'/bin'}:$PATH
exec gzip -d "$@"

-ap