bug#4867: 23.1; dired cannot find gunzip with Z; Windows

[Xah Lee]

> It's better to change the last line to
>
>  gzip -d %*
>
> because then you will be able to give more than one argument to this
> batch file.  E.g., if you want to pass additional switches or unpack
> several files.

Thanks for the tip. I followed your advice on my machine.

> Anyway, why do you have gunzip as a shell script?  I looked at a
> native Windows port and on a GNU/Linux box, and they both have gunzip
> as a first-class binary executable program.

Cygwin and msys both use a shell script for some reason.

Xah

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Xah Lee" <xah@xahlee.org>
Cc: <4867@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: bug#4867: 23.1; dired cannot find gunzip with Z; Windows


> > From: "Xah Lee" <xah@xahlee.org>
> > Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:25:14 -0800
> >
> > Found a solution. Create a file name gunzip.bat, with this content:
> >
> > @echo off
> > gzip -d %1
>
> It's better to change the last line to
>
>  gzip -d %*
>
> because then you will be able to give more than one argument to this
> batch file.  E.g., if you want to pass additional switches or unpack
> several files.
>
> > I think this should still considered a bug though. Considering it as a
> > Windows OS problem isn't very helpful in solving this. I'm sure if 
> > similar
> > problems happen in linux that's OS issue, people probably will not look 
> > at
> > it as “Oh, it's OS issue, emacs doesn't need to deal with it”.
>
> If you try the same with a Windows batch file on GNU/Linux, Emacs will
> barf there as well.  Emacs behave according to the rules of the host
> OS, so you cannot expect it to be able to run alien executables from
> some other OS that the host does not recognize as executables and
> doesn't know how to run.
>
> Anyway, why do you have gunzip as a shell script?  I looked at a
> native Windows port and on a GNU/Linux box, and they both have gunzip
> as a first-class binary executable program.