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Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 17:19:21 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Two small patches for the ported Fileutils 4.0
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Here are two patches for Fileutils, to correct the following two
> problems:
> 
>   - ginstall would crash when invoked to install a file with no
>     extension (such as a shell script);

Hmmm, that's pretty serious.
 
>   - "cp -Pp" would print an error message on filesystems that don't
>     allow setting timestamps of directories.
[snip]

Well, I had said I don't think we need to suppress this message. But since
you've provided me with a patch and the current behaviour is inconsistent with
other parts of the Fileutils ports, I'll apply it. ;)

I'll try to make Fileutils 4.1 support extra things on Windows 2k/XP.

Thanks for the patches. I'll try to get a new release out soon.

Bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]