From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id:	<10109261625.AA16727@clio.rice.edu>
Subject:	Updated fileutils [was chdir patch]
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Date:	Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:25:29 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To:	<3BB1700A.2780E5F4@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> from "Richard Dawe" at Sep 26, 2001 07:04:58 AM
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> If someone can check out how remove (and hence unlink, since remove =
> unlink) behaves on Win2k and perhaps make a patch for that too, then I'll
> produce a package of Fileutils 4.0 against latest CVS + chdir (& remove)
> patches. It doesn't take long to produce a package, but it takes a while
> to upload @ 33 kbps.

I was able to build the fileutil package last evening and verify the
newer fixpath patch made a fully functional (and safe) rm which worked
with deep paths.  Eli pointed out some problems with the fixpath 
approach - when we get those worked out I think we will be ready to
commit the patch (and update the v203 patch kit).

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