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From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject: Re: gzip converts stuff to 8.3 filenames
8 Apr 1998 20:48:23 -0700 :
Message-ID: <6rRbkDM4pfB.cygnus.gnu-win32@mike.franken.de>
References: <3521A67A DOT CE50C02B AT interport DOT net>
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To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Hi Allan,

>I'm fudging around with gzip and those nifty registry sendto commands,
>and I zip a file off to gzip, sure enough emacs-lisp-manual.ps
>becomes EMACS-~1.PS.gz

You don't have gzip from the Cygnus packages, do you ?
Cygnus gzip does not mangle filenames.

[...]
>
>Thanks

Bye.
Michael.
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