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Subject: Re: attn gzip and info maintainer
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:09:54PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>Upgrading to coreutils-6.9 breaks info, as it tries to invoke gunzip.exe.
>  This should be fixed in info to just invoke gunzip, since in gzip 1.3.9,
>gunzip is merely a symlink (and the new coreutils no longer adds implicit
>and confusing .exe extensions to symlinks).

Are you saying that info uses coreutils to start gunzip somehow?

cgf

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