editing of .gz files does not gunzip them

[Warren L Dodge]

Symptoms:

I preiously was using emcas-21.3 and if I edited a .gz file it would
uncompress and edit properly. In this emacs-22.0.50 version using the same
.emacs file the files will not uncompress and come up with the binary junk.



If emacs crashed, and you have the emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
/tools/wdtgnu/emacs-22.0.50/share/emacs/22.0.50/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.3 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, X toolkit)
 of 2005-11-01 on albert
X server distributor `Hummingbird Ltd.', version 11.0.10000
configured using `configure '--prefix=/tools/wdtgnu/emacs-22.0.50' 
'--disable-nls''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Text

Minor modes in effect:
  display-time-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
q C-x C-f a l l <tab> m a i l . o u t 0 0 0 <backspace> 
1 <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <tab> . 
0 0 1 <tab> <return> <escape> x e m a c s - b <tab> 
<backspace> <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> r e p <tab> o r 
<tab> <return>

Recent messages:
To ensure normal operation, you should investigate and remove the
cause of the error in your initialization file.  Start Emacs with
the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error backtrace.

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