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Re: Problem with Emacs Info and gzipped files on Cygwin
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Problem with Emacs Info and gzipped files on Cygwin |
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26 Jan 2004 07:58:28 +0200 |
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: eMaXer <zxy@yxz67483.com>
> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:40:48 GMT
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> Removing the symbolic link from gunzip to gzip (as suggested by Thomas
> Haselberger) solved the problem.
Cygwin-style symlinks are only understood by Cygwin-compiled programs.
Your Emacs is not a Cygwin program; to it, a symlink is just a weird
data file. I guess the Windows shell tried to execute it as a DOS
.com image or something.
As long as you use a non-Cygwin Emacs, I'd suggest to find all
symlinks to programs on your machine and replace them with copies,
like you did with gunzip.