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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 00:35:59 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>
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To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
CC: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>, David Dagon <david DOT dagon AT mindspring DOT com>,
cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: B20: mv deletes files on error (NT)
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"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> 
> to support this at the expense of existing functionality?  I think this
> change needs to be revisited.

IMHO, `mv' should be changed, by inserting `#if[n]def __CYGWIN__'.
Or would you like to downsize the abilities of a system, because _one_
program handles it the wrong way?

Regards,
Corinna

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