Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 08:50:39 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: emacs,info,packed .inf files
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:

> Once upon a time (on 21 Jan 97 at 9:51) Eli Zaretskii said:
> 
> > I think that if you call the compressed files as they would be called on
> > Unix (like gcc.i1.gz), it should work.  If it isn't, then the problem is
>
> But this will cause the DOS part to fail! On DOS the name will be 'gcc.i1g' 
> (with no number tags). 

I understand that you are talking about setting a dual DOS/Windows 95
environment where the tools will work from the same directories, right? 
If so, this is indeed painful and might uncover hidden bugs and problems. 
I think that fixing gzip is the only solution here.