From:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	Re: B20, Win95: cp destroys file
15 Nov 1998 17:17:29 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<19981116010850.22769.rocketmail.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@send103.yahoomail.com>
Reply-To:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
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To:	"Henry S. Warren, Jr." <hank AT watson DOT ibm DOT com>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

---"Henry S. Warren, Jr." <hank AT watson DOT ibm DOT 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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