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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 12:48:58 +0200
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I thought we already made that decision.  

I'm sorry, I've missed that. All I've seen there were technical
comments.

> And I don't think it's a
> political one, IMHO it's a technical decision.

Symlinks won't help to minimize FAQs, that's why I ask
for political decision. Programs compiled with 2.03 won't
understand symlinks. Also low level programs which use ISO/POSIX
functions instead of DOS ones might be broken.

Laurynas