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bowman wrote:
 
> The filenames were Make.common and Make.common.in. On a 8.3 DOS system,
> these were truncated
> to the very unfortunate 'MAKE.COM' by pkunzip.

Off the subject: A worse example are the VMS build scripts included in
many GNU packages.  VMS names its scripts ending in `.com', and
`make.com' is frequently seen.  It took me quite a while to find out why
the system would crash every time I tried to `make' the package...

I've lobbied the maintainer to change it to `makevms.com'; I haven't
checked to see if it's been done.  (I think it was GNU Forth).
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com