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> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 05:56:57 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "rugxulo AT gmail DOT com" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
>
> N.B. Google Groups is misreporting the author here (Eli?).

Yes.

> > > Ignore find entirely! Use "rm .../*.o".
> > 
> > How's that going to help us find and fix all the problems in the new
> > release of DJGPP?
> 
> I didn't think this was a serious issue. And it's very hard to debug
> from guesswork without trying or seeing it yourself. Are you willing
> to try to ssh into his machine? Do you want to check out his entire
> project's sources and try to rebuild it?

I don't see any need for such extremities yet (or ever).

> I'm just saying, DJGPP has enough to worry with, but worrying about
> minor tools is probably not (yet) top priority.

Normally, yes.  But we are now in a special period, whereby the new
release is being in initial testing, so it is very important to
investigate each glitch as thoroughly as possible, to prevent as many
problems as we can from slipping into the new release.

> Anyways, at the very least, such things (Find or File+Txt+Shl)
> should probably be recompiled with 2.05 *before* trying to debug
> anything.

I thought he already did.  Apologies if I misunderstood.