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Re: gunzip problem on Windows
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: gunzip problem on Windows |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:06:46 +0200 |
> From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:26:07 -0700
>
> > It might work to copy gzip.exe into gunzip.exe.
> >
> > Failing that, create a batch file gunzip.bat that does the same as the
> > shell script gunzip, and put it somewhere on your Path.
>
> Why not just rename the existing gunzip script to gunzip.bat?
Because Unixy shell scripts and Windows batch files have different
syntax for how they invoke commands. For example, a typical Unix
shell script will have a "#! /bin/sh" line as its first line; the
Windows command processor will choke on such a line.
Re: gunzip problem on Windows, Friedrich Dominicus, 2009/11/05
Re: gunzip problem on Windows, Xah Lee, 2009/11/05
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