From: juerg.tschirren@isbe.ch (Juerg Tschirren) Subject: Re: gunzip 28 Jan 1998 05:11:26 -0800 Message-ID: <98Jan28.095635gmt+0100.36865.cygnus.gnu-win32@limes.isbe.ch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kevin Tighe , gnu-win32@cygnus.com Kevin Tighe wrote: > I tried to gunzip emacs and I got a non-stop flow of garbage in the > window. Does anyone know what caused this? > > this is the command I entered in bash: "gunzip -c -d emacs_tar.gz" > > The option -c means: write to standard output (= normally the terminal). Invoke gunzip just this way: gunzip emacs_tar.gz Even the -d option should not be needed (it means decompress, but that's the default). Doing so you'll find the unziped files in your actually working directory. Juerg P.S.: in future take a look in the man-pages. You'll find all the answers for such questions there! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In a world without fences - who needs Gates? Experience LINUX! http://www.linux.org http://www.suse.de http://www.redhat.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".