On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2009-12-27 02:55 +0100, John Martin wrote: > >> Package: emacs23 >> Version: 23.1+1-5 >> Severity: normal >> >> Attempting to visit a gzipped file fails with something like the >> following in a window "*jka-compr-error*". >> >> ,---- >> Error while executing "gzip -c -q -d < >> /usr/share/doc/debian-reference-common/html/debian-reference.en.txt.gz" >> >> gzip: invalid option -- 'q' >> BusyBox v1.14.2 (Debian 1:1.14.2-2) multi-call binary > > Why did you install busybox as gzip? This is asking for trouble, > because it does not support all options (e.g. -q) of GNU gzip. > > If this is really what you want, you will have to customize the > jka-compr-compression-info-list variable, I'm afraid.
Not what I want and not what I intended. ,----[ debsums gzip | grep /bin/gzip ] /bin/gzip OK `---- Moreover, from a command line. ,----[ /bin/gzip -c -q -d </usr/share/doc/debian-reference-common/html/debian-reference.en.txt.gz | head ] Debian Reference Osamu Aoki Copyright © 2007-2009 Osamu Aoki This Debian Reference (v2) (2009-11-28 18:06:13 UTC) is intended to provide a broad overview of the Debian system as a post-installation user's guide. It covers many aspects of system administration through shell-command examples for gzip: stdout: Broken pipe `---- I get the same misbehavior with emacs -q. This is a fairly new installation (10 days) with very little customization. Busybox and gzip were upgraded immediately after installation from a 4/2009 debian 5.0 DVD on 17 Dec. Emacs23 was installed shortly thereafter. This problem arose about 3 days ago. Purging busybox had no effect on the emacs problem and neither did reinstalling busybox, gzip, and emacs23 with emacs23-bin-common. -jam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org