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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 21:43:22 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Fileutils 4.0 port and ginstall
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> >
> > It'll translate a call
> >
> >       install foo/bar elsewhere/bar
> >
> > silently into an equivalent of
> >
> >       install foo/bar elsewhere/bar
> >       stubify elsewhere/bar
> 
> Actually, it does this:
> 
>         if foo/bar.exe does not exist
>            stubify foo/bar
>         install foo/bar.exe elsewhere/bar.exe

Just to clarify for the port of 4.0's install:

In the case where foo/bar is an unstubbed COFF, it works as Eli says. If
foo/bar is a stubbed COFF image, foo/bar is just copied to
elsewhere/bar.exe, since it does not require stubbing. If foo/bar is a
plain old DOS (MZ) executable then it is copied to elsewhere/bar.exe.

Everything else just gets copied from foo/bar to elsewhere/bar.

Bye, Rich =]

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