Re: Bug#149454: uudecode bug (?)

[Santiago Vila]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, martin f krafft wrote:

> This I dig. However, other tools, like gunzip replace pipes and
> symlinks rather than following them. So at the very least, it's not
> standardized across GNU tools.

gzip is an exception, because it removes the original file when
compressing a file, removes the .gz file when uncompressing it, and
usually refuses to overwrite an uncompressed file or a compressed one
if it already exists, but the general Unix rule is to follow symlinks.