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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: arc-lzh-exe.el -- archive-mode on lzh self-extracting exes
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> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:53:39 -0400
> Cc: user42@zip.com.au, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
>     I installed the arc-mode.el and mule.el changes.  Could we put off the
>     changes to auto-mode-alist till after the release?
> 
> If that change is to simply recognize a new kind of archive, why delay
> it?

Because .exe files are much more widespread than LZH archive in .exe
disguise.  So the change in point might adversely affect many files.