GNU bug report logs - #10990
24.0.94; Uncompressing files

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Reported by: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 08:54:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.94

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de>
To: 10990 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10990: 24.0.94; Uncompressing files
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:47:36 +0100

Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de> writes:
> It does not need to and you don't seem to understand how that is
> supposed to work.  If gzip gets invoked as gunzip, then it automatically
> infers the "-d" switch.  Which is why usually a symbolic link gunzip ->
> gzip is sufficient.  Only that you are running on Windows and Windows
> doesn't have symbolic links.  MSys has them, but Windows applications
> know nothing about that.

Come to think of it, I don't think MSys implements symbolic links, so it
most likely uses a shell script to emulate one (again, Windows wouldn't
know what to do with them).


Regards,
Achim.
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