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> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:01:50 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it>
> 
> What do I have to do to get back to the way I used to be?

  make install LN_S_FILEONLY='/bin/ln -s'

> BTW, why Emacs, on Windows, has 3 executable?
> 
>   runemacs.exe
>   emacs-27.0.90.exe
>   emacs.exe (hardlink, now)
> 
> Yes, runemacs.exe to remove the DOS window (if I remember): why this
> cannot be done with a single EXE?

Because emacs.exe is a console program, not a GUI program.

> On Windows there ar a lot of apps (IDE, Editore, Browser etc) which have only one EXE to be started with (no DOS window etc).

Those other apps are only GUI, whereas Emacs can be run both as a GUI
and a text-mode program.