From: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: B20, Win95: cp destroys file 16 Nov 1998 02:32:20 -0800 Message-ID: <19981116010850.22769.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send103.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: "Henry S. Warren, Jr." , gnu-win32@cygnus.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) Hmm. It used to do it that way in b19. Is it possible that inode or stat routine has become buggy? == - \\||// -------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- -- earnie_boyd@yahoo.com -- -- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html -- ----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".