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Subject:	Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU gzip-1.3.5 uploaded
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On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:52:17 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
wrote:

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:48:48 -0500, Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>> 
>> We must use the stub symlinks for executables so that they work
>> outside bash.  We can't rely on bash for djgpp.  We can use djgpp
>> symlinks for data files that will be read only by djgpp programs,
>> that's OK.
>
>We can also have _both_ gunzip.exe a stub symlink _and_ gunzip a v2.04
>style symlink.  The former should be usable by Bash, the latter
>outside Bash.

Does 2.04 ln -s do the right thing in both cases: what has changed
there? I am aware that Unix style symlinks have been added to DJGPP. 

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