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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 14:08:44 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Matthew Haley <mhaley99 AT homemail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Installing DJGPP
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On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Matthew Haley wrote:

> >(Why is it that people get so picky about identical files overwriting
> >each other in the DJGPP archives?  This happens all the time when a
> >typical Windows program is installed and overwrites several system
> >DLLs, but nobody complains. ;-)
> 
> Probably because some (most?) of the time the user is never aware of
> DLLs being overwritten.

That would mean that "unzip -o" should end all these problems for DJGPP 
as well, right?

(For those who don't know: the -o switch tells unzip to always overwrite 
existing files without any warnings.)

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