[comp.emacs] Followup to my problems with uncompress.el

pf@csc.ti.com (Paul Fuqua) (11/13/88)

     Earlier, I posted a message complaining that uncompress.el wouldn't
do write-protected files for me, and that the obvious fix didn't help.
Well, I looked into it further and discovered an apparent problem with
the tcsh.
     If I bind shell-file-name to "/bin/sh" (and also bind
buffer-read-only to nil) around the call to shell-command-on-region,
everything works.  However, if I leave shell-file-name set to
"/usr/local/bin/tcsh", my usual shell, it doesn't work.
     The fix for me is to do both bindings, and maybe I'll keep looking
and find the real problem.  Hope this is useful to someone else.

                              pf

Paul Fuqua
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