Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 08:21:25 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Marty Leisner <leisner AT sdsp DOT mc DOT xerox DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: copying to lpt1:? 
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On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Marty Leisner wrote:

> But all permutation I tried with cp gave me the
> message:
> 
> Does foo.ps specify a file name on the target?

I don't understand how this can be true.  There's no such prompt anywhere 
inside cp, and it looks exactly like what XCOPY prints.  Can you find all 
the copies of XCOPY and CP on your machine and see if XCOPY or some other 
CP is actually called instead of the GNU one?

> Are UNCs considered files? i.e.
> 
> if I do:
> 
> cp foo.ps '\\sharename\printer'
> 
> is it desirable for it to work?

Desirable: maybe.  But MSDOS itself doesn't know about such pathnames, 
and the DJGPP library doesn't support them.  So they won't work.