From:	"Turo Lamminen" <turo DOT lamminen AT pp DOT inet DOT fi>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Bug in Fileutils 3.16?
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When ln is invoked with -s to produce a "symbolic link" and the source
file isn't an executable, it still tries to produce an .exe -file. When
I do something like this:

ln -s dummy.txt dummy2.txt

It creates dummy2.txt.exe instead of dummy2.txt

Isn't this a bug?

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Turo Lamminen
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