From: juerg DOT tschirren AT isbe DOT ch (Juerg Tschirren)
Subject: Re: gunzip
28 Jan 1998 05:11:26 -0800
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To: Kevin Tighe <kt400797 AT oak DOT cats DOT ohiou DOT edu>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Kevin Tighe wrote:

> I tried to gunzip emacs and I got a non-stop flow of garbage in the
> window.  Does anyone know what caused this?
>
> this is the command I entered in bash: "gunzip -c -d emacs_tar.gz"
>
>

 The option -c means: write to standard output (= normally the terminal).
Invoke gunzip just this way:
  gunzip emacs_tar.gz
Even the -d option should not be needed (it means decompress, but that's the
default).
Doing so you'll find the unziped files in your actually working directory.

Juerg

P.S.: in future take a look in the man-pages. You'll find all the answers
for such questions there!

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