On Jun 11, 2008, at 1:52 PM, Dr Skip wrote:

> D:\>"D:\bin-local\UNIX\usr\local\wbin\gzip.exe" -c "d:\Temp.install 
> \*.*"
> 1>"k:\gz\Temp.install.gz"
>
> d:\Temp.install\*.*: No such file or directory

I haven't used gzip or the shell on windows very much, but...

Most (many?) unix utilities depend on the shell for wildcard  
expansion.  The quotes around "d:\tmp.install\*.*", or calling from  
the windows CMD processor rather than a unix shell, may suppress this  
expansion, leaving gzip thinking that it needs to compress a file  
literally called "*.*"

Perhaps you could use the recursion option (if it's present in the  
windows gzip):
> D:\bin-local\UNIX\usr\local\wbin\gzip.exe -r -c "d:\Temp.install"  
> 1>"k:\gz\Temp.install.gz"

BillW

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