Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:01:50 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden>
> 
> 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.