Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:01:31 -0700 From: Dario Alcocer To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gzip.exe as symlink... Message-ID: <20020715080131.A27297@ns.helixdigital.com> References: <09b601c22bc1$ec09e870$2300a8c0@LAPTOP> <005601c22be1$c1fb8f00$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <005601c22be1$c1fb8f00$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com>; from maxb@ukf.net on Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:26:53AM +0100 On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:26:53AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > Never mind emacs - surely it makes more sense for gzip to be the real file, and > gunzip to be the symlink? Isn't that what most people would automatically > assume? Yes. I'd say that this qualifies as packaging bug. OTOH, I agree with Rob that the NTemacs package in question is probably broken also. -- Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc. alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/