Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:19:05 -0700 (PDT)
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: emacs handling gzipped info files
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At 02:33  9/15/1997 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
>> >> I can send you my gcc.inz if you want.
>> >
>> >Please do (but do NOT cc: it to the list).
>> Okay. It's attached, in MIME format.
>
>I think I've solved this.  The reason that I couldn't reproduce this
>is that I called the compressed file gcc.gz, not gcc.inz as you did.
>
>The problem is that Emacs wasn't reading gcc.inz in binary mode,
>whereas for gcc.gz it did, because it has been told (on
>lisp/dosfns.el) that every file with a .gz extension is a binary file.
>
>Please try the following patch and tell me if it works for you:
>[snipped]
No, it doesn't work. The symptoms are the same. Strange. It works for you?

Incidentally, when I name the compressed file gcc.gz, I get the message "No
such file: gcc.inf", and get nothing whatever.

I don't know how to debug Emacs lisp, otherwise I might be able to search
deeper for the source of the problem.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net