> I think the warning is a good alternative. It would be very good if this > also could handle the case when there is no software available to handle > the compression (as might be the case on w32) in other situations (than > accessing tutorials etc).
The warning it currently gives on Debian GNU/Linux after removing gzip and trying to open a compressed file looks like: Error while executing "gzip -c -q -d < filename.gz" /bin/sh: gzip: command not found It seems it is already quite informative. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel