emacs for windows installation problems

[Descend492]

OK, I would like to install emacs for windows, so I dl'ed the newest version. it was a *.tar.gz.
So I read that you have to gunzip and untar it. So I got these utilities and placed the *.exes in the folder with the emacs. When I typed the following line:

gzip -c -d emacstar.gz | untar xvf -

I kept getting a file not found error. That is the name of the file (I renamed it...which is what it said to do in the tutorial). What's wrong here? Is there something I need to do differently? Thanks.

 

[Rotorvator]

Is "untar" an application? - never seen it before... usually untarring is done with "tar".

Try doing it without the pipe:
tar xvzf emacstar.gz

If that doesn't work, try doing it in 2 steps:
gzip -d emacstar.gz
=>This should give you a file called "emacstar" - rename it to emacs.tar, then do a:
tar xvf emacs.tar

Also, winzip should handle tar & gzip file formats.

Good luck 🙂