Stow was written by Bob Glickstein , Zanshin Software, Inc. Contributions from Gord Matzigkeit . John Bazik wrote `fastcwd', the Perl subroutine for computing the current working directory. Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote the fix to prevent stow -D / stow -R removing initially-empty directories. Adam Lackorzynski wrote the fix which prevents the generation of wrong links if there are links in the stow directory. Anthony R Iano-Fletcher contributed the '--subdirs' option. Gaël Roualland wrote the code for the '-i' and '-f' option and improved Conflicts handling. Stow is currently maintained by Guillaume Morin .