On 2009-12-27 02:55 +0100, John Martin wrote:

> Package: emacs23
> Version: 23.1+1-5
> Severity: normal
>
> Attempting to visit a gzipped file fails with something like the
> following in a window "*jka-compr-error*".
>
> ,----
>  Error while executing "gzip -c -q -d <
> /usr/share/doc/debian-reference-common/html/debian-reference.en.txt.gz"
>
>  gzip: invalid option -- 'q'
>  BusyBox v1.14.2 (Debian 1:1.14.2-2) multi-call binary

Why did you install busybox as gzip?  This is asking for trouble,
because it does not support all options (e.g. -q) of GNU gzip.

If this is really what you want, you will have to customize the
jka-compr-compression-info-list variable, I'm afraid.

Sven



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