Date: Sun, 8 Feb 1998 13:45:14 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Myknees AT aol DOT com
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Emacs 19.34
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On Thu, 5 Feb 1998 Myknees AT aol DOT com wrote:

> Then I used PKZip2.50 (32-bit version) for Windows to unzip some Emacs files.
> When I went to DOS, I saw that these new files had numeric tails.  So I used
> InfoZip (slower) to unzip all the Emacs zip files, and the resulting
> files had no numeric tails.  Now Emacs works from DOS.  
> 
> If this effect is reproducible on someone else's machine perhaps it's worth
> mentioning in the FAQ, since PK Ware is very popular.

Thanks.  I will add this to the FAQ (although it evades me how could
PKUnzip control the way Windows generates short aliases for long
names).

Does anybody else see this behavior of PKUnzip?