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> Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 10:06:00 +0200
> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
> 
> Well, Eli, "I'd suggest" is hardly a crusade, isn't it?

Sorry, I'm so idiosyncratic to suggestions to drop ``old'' platforms
that I sometimes go way out of line.

> > Then I'd say get a better port of rm.exe.
> 
> I was led to believe MinGW/MSYS tools were good.

They are good, but that doesn't mean there are no bugs or misfeatures.
I suggest to complain to GnuWin32 maintainers, I find them to be quite
responsive (MSYS tools are actually Cygwin ports).