Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 08:44:10 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, dj AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Cannot symlink when basename is 8 chars
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On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> > If I'm right, this problem is IMHO serious enough to justify another 
> > update of djdev.
> 
> I'm not so sure of that, since noone seems to have noticed it until now.

This breaks some of the symlinks distributed with a few DJGPP packages (I
noticed it when I tried to use `install' from GNU Fileutils).  Besides,
according to our experience, bugs tend to lie dormant for months, at which
time a flood of complaints about this same bug hits the news group... 

> Maybe a patched stub.exe might be made available...

There is no stub.exe in v2.  The stub is encoded inside stubify.