bug#27030: Might you be able to assist me to properly download and install your super-fine gzip product?

[Satterthwaite, James]

Thanks Eric!!

I will proceed to cygwin.com

Thanks again and have a wonderful week!

Sincerely,
James E. Satterthwaite
Data Architect
(317) 710-4433

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Blake [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 5:43 PM
To: Satterthwaite, James <address@hidden>; address@hidden
Subject: Re: bug#27030: Might you be able to assist me to properly download and 
install your super-fine gzip product?

tag 27030 notabug
thanks

On 05/22/2017 04:15 PM, Satterthwaite, James wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you in advance, as with all the screenshot action you might miss my 
> sincere thanks!!

Attaching screenshots to a mailing list is LOUSY netiquette - it multiplies the 
bandwidth required of the mail server by the number of subscribers.  If you 
absolutely can't just paste the text from your terminal, then it is still 
better to host your screenshot externally and merely include only a URL in your 
message, rather than directly attaching it.

> 
> Might you be able to assist me to properly download and install your 
> super-fine gzip product?
> 
> [cid:image001.png@01D2D31F.0B2B4E00]

Transcribing that message, I see an error box referring to:

C:|Users\satterth\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet 
Files\Content.IE5\W...
The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're 
running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an 
x86 (32-bit) or x86 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the 
software publisher.

But this mailing list is NOT the software publisher of pre-packaged binaries 
for Windows.  All we publish here is the source code, that other downstream 
distributions use to create pre-built binaries.  So you are better off taking 
your request to wherever you downloaded the binary, or considering a different 
distribution of GNU software for windows (I can recommend cygwin.com).  At any 
rate, I'm closing this as not a bug in the upstream database, as this is a 
matter between you and the downstream distribution you used, not something 
upstream can control.

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