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

[Michael Albinus]

Chris Zheng <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello Michael,

Hi Chris,

> I thought about this command, and the results are
>
> M-& echo xyzzy | "gzip" | "gzip -d" RET
> ⇒ Not a command error for "gzip -d".

Well, this is indeed an error! Thanks for reporting.

> M-& echo xyzzy | "gzip" | "gzip" -d RET
> ⇒ Success.
>
> So the best approach is to quote only the program name. Thank you for
> the reply and the clarification of backslashes. 

What about 

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

This would easy to implement. Sorry that I don't test myself; I do not
run MS Windows anywhere.

> Best wishes,
>
> Chris

Best regards, Michael.