Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:51:35 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: emacs,info,packed .inf files
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On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:

> The subject has already been risen and dealt with in this newsgroup, but I 
> have recently been having problems with gzipped info files - neither Emacs 
> nor stand-alone Info recognizes them as valid documents. All the files have 
> proper extensions (.inz, i1z etc.) but yet under *Windoze 95* neither of 
> abovementioned programs sees them. Info reports that there's no manpages for 
> this or that topic and Emacs says that there's no Top node in there. Under 
> plain DOS everything's fine as it used to be. I suspect that this has 
> something to do with LFN support under Win95 - maybe the extensions generated 
> under this OS are different than those derived under DOS (e.g. inf.gz instead 
> of inz)?. Is there a simple solution to that or do I have to look into sources 
> of these programs?

I think that if you call the compressed files as they would be called on 
Unix (like gcc.i1.gz), it should work.  If it isn't, then the problem is 
that the DJGPP port of gzip deliberately breaks the LFN support (by 
forcing the file extension to be 3 characters at most, even when LFN is 
available).  I think a patch to gzip was posted to the news group, you 
should be able to get it through mail archives search at DJ Delorie's 
server.