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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT syncretize DOT net>
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Subject: Re: gzip.exe as symlink...
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 19:47:04 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: gzip.exe as symlink...


> 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?

Rob


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