From:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	Re: gzip converts stuff to 8.3 filenames
10 Apr 1998 15:51:35 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<19980407115613.20746.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1a.yahoomail.com>
Reply-To:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Mime-Version:	1.0
To:	Allan Peda <allan AT interport DOT net>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

---Allan Peda <allan AT interport DOT net> wrote:
>
> I'm fudging around with gzip and those nifty registry sendto commands,
> and I zip a file off to gzip, sure enough emacs-lisp-manual.ps
> becomes EMACS-~1.PS.gz 

Are you on Win95?  Are you sure that your picking up the cygwin32
gzip.exe and not some other you may have had?  Are you executing from
DOS or from BASH?  You shouldn't get this executing the cygwin32
gzip.exe from the cygwin32 bash.exe.

> 
> Now: I guess the most sure bet/quick fix is a batch file "wrapper"
> to save the name as a variable and move it.  Anyone have one.  I'll
wait
> a day and if no reply, I'll post it here.

Make that a two week wait.

> 
> .. Well it's (sorta) Cygwin32 related.
> 
> Thanks
> a

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