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> From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 21:20:52 +0200
> 
> Guess I was wrong about the date; I last built zip a year ago; but the
> uppercase handling is in. I'm pretty sure it's part of the standard distro,
> though it _might_ be a local patch.  Will update my zip sources (there's
> probably a new version by now) and check this weekend.

No, you are probably right: I see that zip uses findfirst/findnext,
not readdir.  I guess Rich still uses an older version of zip (as do
I ;-).

> > However, I wonder: does this mean that none of the Binutils programs
> > will work with these stubs?  Will `nm' and `strings' fail, for
> > example?
> I believe so.  I know for a fact that gdb won't work with programs using
> nonstandard stubs.

This is bad, IMHO.  Doing exe2coff+stubify is not something I'd like
to tell users to do.