Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 20:41:53 -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 04:43  9/11/1997 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
>> When I compress with `gzip -9 -c gcc.inf >gcc.inz', the first node which is
>> garbled is "Invoking GCC"-"Submodel Options"-"RS/6000 and PowerPC Options".
>> This changes with the compression level, so your results may vary.
>
>I cannot reproduce this.  I visited every node beginning with the one you 
>mentioned, and all of them are OK.
Very odd. You did, I assume, delete or rename the original gcc.inf. I can
send you my gcc.inz if you want.

I should mention that my emacs was built from the source, instead of being
the stock binary. I did not change anything in it, but I patched the putenv
function to avoid the 23-environment-variable bug.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net