From: cgf@cygnus.com (Christopher G. Faylor) Subject: Re: B20, Win95: cp destroys file 15 Nov 1998 23:56:36 GMT Message-ID: <72npnk$11t$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: <364E3A39.6A5.cygnus.gnu-win32@watson.ibm.com> X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test63 (15 March 1998) In article <364E3A39.6A5.cygnus.gnu-win32@watson.ibm.com>, Henry S. Warren, Jr. 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) This has always been the case with cygwin, unfortunately. Patches to rectify this behavior are, as always, welcome. -- cgf@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/