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Re: invoking gunzip.exe


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: invoking gunzip.exe
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:55:16 +0300

> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:51:27 -0500
> From: address@hidden (Karl Berry)
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Eric> I'm not sure what patch Chris Faylor put in his latest cygwin drop of 
> texinfo 
> Eric> to fix this improper Windows-ism, but it would be nice to have upstream:
> Eric> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2007-04/msg00035.html
> 
> Eric, thanks for mentioning it.
> 
> Chris, can you please send me the patch so I include it in the original
> Texinfo source?  If you have other Cygwin patches, I'd be glad to
> incorporate them too.

One way of fixing this that should satisfy all DOS/Windows
environments without any need for extensive #ifdef'ing is to use
"gzip.exe -d" instead of "gunzip.exe".

(FWIW, I don't really understand this drive to reimplement Posix
utilities as shell scripts.  What exactly was wrong with gunzip,
fgrep, etc. being programs?)




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