From:	eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
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Subject:	Re: install -> ginstall symlink in fil316b
Date:	6 Mar 2000 11:59:22 GMT
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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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