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	Delorie on Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:48:48 -0500)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU gzip-1.3.5 uploaded
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> Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:48:48 -0500
> From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
> CC: eliz AT gnu DOT org, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, st001906 AT hrz1 DOT hrz DOT tu-darmstadt DOT de
> 
> We must use the stub symlinks for executables so that they work
> outside bash.  We can't rely on bash for djgpp.  We can use djgpp
> symlinks for data files that will be read only by djgpp programs,
> that's OK.

We can also have _both_ gunzip.exe a stub symlink _and_ gunzip a v2.04
style symlink.  The former should be usable by Bash, the latter
outside Bash.