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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:42:40 +0200
From: Manuel Collado <m DOT collado AT aaron DOT ls DOT fi DOT upm DOT es>
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Subject: Re: Weird interference igawk / igawk.bat
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:41:53 +0200
>>From: Manuel Collado <m DOT collado AT aaron DOT ls DOT fi DOT upm DOT es>
>>
>>Is that a bug in the DJGPP port of bash?
> 
> 
> No.  The distribution contains both igawk and igawk.bat because we
> have no idea what the user has as their interactive shell.  You are
> supposed to keep only one of them on any given system, depending on
> your normal shell.

Are you sure? 'igawk.bat' simply calls 'sh.exe' to execute 'igawk'. So 
bash users can safely discard 'igawk.bat', but cmd users need both.
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