Re: Dired 7.5 bug: Grepping gzipped files problem

sandy@ibm550.sissa.it
Thu, 29 Sep 1994 21:54:16 +0200


>>>>> On Thu, 29 Sep 94 11:39:58 +0100,
      adrian.phillips@dnmi.no (Adrian Phillips (Tandem User)) said:

 >   -rw-r--r--    1 tandem   user       59704 Sep 19 14:21 0919.gz
 >   -rw-r--r--    1 tandem   user       29650 Sep 20 14:17 0920.gz
 >   -rw-r--r--    1 tandem   user       20851 Sep 21 15:11 0921.gz

 > the following messages appear:
 > Hits for grep "qemm" in
 >    /usr/people/tandem/News/groups/comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc/0919.gz:

 > zcat: stdin: not in gzip format

Looks to me like its a problem with either your .gz files or zcat.
Does it work to zcat them from the shell?  dired-grep works on gzipped
files by zcat'ing them to grep.

--sandy