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Re: [h-e-w] Re: Fwd: Installing emacs
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Ismael Valladolid Torres |
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Re: [h-e-w] Re: Fwd: Installing emacs |
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Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:15:27 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.10i |
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