From: hank@watson.ibm.com (Henry S. Warren, Jr.)
Subject: B20, Win95: cp destroys file
14 Nov 1998 23:15:20 -0800
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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)
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