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From: John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com (John Wiersba)
Subject: bug in cp: Permission denied
3 Nov 1998 08:42:51 -0800 :
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What's up with this?

touch a
cp -p a b
cp: b: Permission denied

The copy actually works, and the timestamp is copied, but not the
permissions. 

I'm running b19 with coolview on NT with everything binary-mounted.

John Wiersba (john DOT wiersba AT medstat DOT com)
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