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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?)
- invoking gunzip.exe, Eric Blake, 2007/04/27
- Re: invoking gunzip.exe, Christopher Faylor, 2007/04/29
- Re: invoking gunzip.exe, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/04/28
- Re: invoking gunzip.exe, Karl Berry, 2007/04/29
- Re: invoking gunzip.exe, Karl Berry, 2007/04/29
- Re: invoking gunzip.exe, Christopher Faylor, 2007/04/29