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Date:	Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:47:16 +0200
From:	Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Patch for fileutils to support symlinks
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
[...]
> To make all this work as intended, the two "ln -s/stubedit" lines in
> the Makefile need to be changed to run "stubify -g/stubedit" instead,
> so that people could invoke gmkdir etc. from the DOS prompt.  After
> all, that's why I added those ``symlinks'': to give users a way to
> invoke the GNU programs instead of COMMAND.COM's internal commands.

Thanks for explanation.

> The rest of the patches seem okay to me, but please somebody be sure
> to run the test suite after applying them.

Hm? Fileutils 3.16 has a testsuite?

Laurynas

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