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B20, Win95: cp destroys file
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- Subject: B20, Win95: cp destroys file
- From: "Henry S. Warren, Jr." <hank at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 21:22:39 -0500
- Organization: IBM Corp.
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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