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Re: B20, Win95: cp destroys file
- To: "Henry S. Warren, Jr." <hank at watson dot ibm dot com>, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: B20, Win95: cp destroys file
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 17:08:50 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
---"Henry S. Warren, Jr." <hank@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> If you copy, using cp, a file to itself, and the target and source
files
> differ in capitalization, then the content of the file is wiped out;
it
> becomes a file of 0-length. Example: "cp hilbert.c hilbert.C" trashes
> file hilbert.c.
> The Win95 "copy" command gives the error message "File cannot be
> copied onto itself" in this situation (much preferable)
Hmm. It used to do it that way in b19. Is it possible that inode or
stat routine has become buggy?
==
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