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Re: Problem with Emacs Info and gzipped files on Cygwin
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eMaXer |
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Re: Problem with Emacs Info and gzipped files on Cygwin |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:40:48 GMT |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:
>> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help From: eMaXer <zxy@yxz67483.com> Date:
>> Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:16:08 GMT
>>
>> Hi, I am using NTEmacs (GNU Emacs 21.3.1) on Windows XP, and
>> Cygwin 1.5.5-1. When I try to use Emacs Info, if the info file is
>> gzipped an error message window pops up with the following
>> message :
>>
>> "The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction. CS:0726
>> IP:ffd8 OP:fe ff 00 00 00 Choose 'Close' to terminate the
>> application."
>>
>> The message window has the title "16 bit MS DOS Subsystem".
>>
>> The error happens in the function call-process-region. The
>> following code produces the same error:
>>
>> (call-process-region (point-min) end-of-gzipped "gunzip" t t nil)
Eli> What port of gzip/gunzip do you have? If it's a DOS port, I'd
Eli> try to replace it with a native Windows port. (I suspect that
Eli> it's a DOS port because NTVDM, the NT Virtual DOS Machine,
Eli> a.k.a. NT DOS emulator, does not kick in unless you run a DOS
Eli> program.)
Thanks for the hint. The port is the one that comes with the Cygwin
distribution, I do not know if it is DOS or anything else.
Removing the symbolic link from gunzip to gzip (as suggested by Thomas
Haselberger) solved the problem.
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