gzip converts stuff to 8.3 filenames

Allan Peda allan@interport.net
Thu Apr 9 20:49:00 GMT 1998


I looked at this a little more since, and it only happens when invoked
as a "send to" link from that task manager (I think that's what it's
called).  Not really worth a high priority, but annoying nonetheless.

I need to play with other ways of launching gzip.

(yes, it is cygnus gzip, which works fine from the command line.)

Michael Hirmke wrote:
> 
> Hi Allan,
> 
> >I'm fudging around with gzip and those nifty registry sendto commands,
> >and I zip a file off to gzip, sure enough emacs-lisp-manual.ps
> >becomes EMACS-~1.PS.gz
> 
> You don't have gzip from the Cygnus packages, do you ?
> Cygnus gzip does not mangle filenames.
> 
> [...]
> >
> >Thanks
> 
> Bye.
> Michael.
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