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From: | eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg) |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: install -> ginstall symlink in fil316b |
Date: | 6 Mar 2000 11:59:22 GMT |
Organization: | Ericsson Erisoft AB, Sweden |
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote: : Incidentally, I think it's not a good idea to use `install' on : DOS/Windows systems anyway: you could easily pick up the Windows : install.exe, what with the brutal Windows way of sticking its own : directories to the front of PATH (unless you use special work-arounds : for this misfeature in your AUTOEXEC.BAT). So I think using : `ginstall' is better even without this bug. (Why do you think all : Makefile's in ports of GNU utilities use ginstall? ;-) Hey! What's this work-around? Right, MartinS
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