From: jp@nuancecom.com (JP Shipherd) Subject: RE: cp -p 14 May 1997 23:46:55 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970514090608.00a7ace0.cygnus.gnu-win32@awesome.nuance.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: jp@awesome.nuance.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Original-To: Sergey Okhapkin , "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Bruce D. McLeod'" Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com I also have the same problem as Bruce. /temp> ls -l tab-test -rw-r--r-- 1 544 everyone 105 Apr 24 10:13 tab-test /temp> cp -p tab-test tab-test-new cp: tab-test-new: Invalid argument Sergey, did you have the problem where cp -p gave a Null timestamp (Dec 31, 1969) to the target file in Beta 17? (BTW, how did you manage to get real user ID's associated with the files and not user 500?) --jp At 10:53 AM 5/13/97 +0400, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: >Bruce D. McLeod wrote: >> It used to be that cp -p just messed up the access time, but >> it got worse: >> >> C:\temp>cp -p bdmlog bdmlog2 >> cp: bdmlog2: Invalid argument >> >> Running b18, NT > >The same config. > >1:/usr/src$ ls -l t.c >-rw-r--r-- 1 Administ Domain U 865 Apr 24 12:06 t.c >2:/usr/src$ cp -p t.c ttt.c >3:/usr/src$ ls -l ttt.c >-rw-r--r-- 1 sos Domain U 865 Apr 24 12:06 ttt.c >4:/usr/src$ > >I have no idea why this doesn't work for you... > >-- >Sergey Okhapkin >Moscow, Russia >Looking for a job. > > >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". > > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".