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Re: gzip.exe as symlink...


Robert Collins wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Max Bowsher" maxb@ukf.net
>
>> Never mind emacs - surely it makes more sense for gzip to be the
>> real file, and gunzip to be the symlink? Isn't that what most people
>> would automatically assume?
>
> I'd never thought about it - why would anyone care which is the real
> file?

Ah - you want a reason :-). Dunno, it just felt better.

But David Robinow came up with a good one - if gzip.exe is a symlink, then there
is no way to invoke gzip in compression mode from a non cygwin program. OK, its
not that important, but since the fix is trivial...

Max.


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