Never mind emacs - surely it makes more sense for gzip to be the real file, and gunzip to be the symlink? Isn't that what most people would automatically assume? Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/