Problems with GNAT and GZIP

Problems with GNAT and GZIP

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I'm posting this for a co-worker who recently (yesterday) downloaded the 
Windows NT version of GNAT, along with the GZIP and TAR executables to 
decompress the GNAT archive.  When we try to execute gzip-winnt.exe, a window 
pops up and then quickly vanishes.  Drag-and drop of the archive onto 
gzip-winnt.exe and invoking it from the command line have the same effect.
This is all happening on a Pentium machine running Windows NT 3.5.  I've
decompressed and used GNAT on SunOS, but I'm not a PC person so I don't
have any suggestions for him.  Any ideas?

David papay
papay@acm.org

Re: Problems with GNAT and GZIP

[Robert S. White]

In article <3j2tlo$jte@hopper.acm.org>, papay@ACM.ORG says...
>
>When we try to execute gzip-winnt.exe, a window 
>pops up and then quickly vanishes.  Drag-and drop of the archive onto 
>gzip-winnt.exe and invoking it from the command line have the same effect.

I download GNAT and gzip-winnt.exe recently also.  No trouble with running
it from the command line after I renamed it to GUNZIP.EXE.  I also copied it
to GZIP.EXE since I seem to remember a true with GNU stuff running differently
depending upon what it is called.  When I tried to associate ".gz" type files
to run GUNZIP.EXE from FileManager I did get similar behavior to what you
described.

Hope this helps!

Robert S. White 
76166.1137@compuserve.com