Re: Is quotes in tramp-find-inline-compress needed in MS-Windows?

[Michael Albinus]

Chris Zheng <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,

Hi Chris,

> The function `tramp-find-inline-compress' in tramp-sh.el has the code:
>
> (format
>  ;; Windows shells need the program file name after
>  ;; the pipe symbol be quoted if they use forward
>  ;; slashes as directory separators.
>  (if (memq system-type '(windows-nt))
>      "echo %s | \"%s\" | \"%s\""
>    "echo %s | %s | %s")
>  magic compress decompress)
>
> which says the commands need to be quoted in MS-Windows. But In
> MS-Windows 8.1 I get
>
> M-& echo xyzzy | gzip | gzip -d RET
> ⇒ Success.
>
> M-& echo xyzzy | \"gzip\" | \"gzip -d\" RET
> ⇒ Error.

The backslashes in the code snippet above are needed to mask the
quotation mark in the string. They do not arrive the target shell. Try

M-& echo xyzzy | "gzip" | "gzip -d" RET

> Thank you,
>
> Chris

Best regards, Michael.