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 to prevente the generation of wrong links if there are links in the stow directory. Stow is currently maintained by Guillaume Morin .