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Date:	Sun, 3 Oct 2004 00:03:42 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Weird bug with cp -f
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On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:51:38PM -0700, Ben Wing wrote:
>Try this, latest Cygwin, Win2k latest:
>
>/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2049% cat > foo
>foo [hit ^D]
>/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2050% od -bc foo
>0000000 146 157 157 015 012
>          f   o   o  \r  \n
>0000005
>/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2051% cp foo bar
>/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2052% cp -f foo bar
>cp: writing `bar': Invalid request code
>/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2053% ls -ld bar
>drwxrwxrwx+   2 Ben Wing None            0 Oct  2 22:40 bar/
>/xemacs/cygbuild/build-mule/src 2054%
>
>Clever, no?  Somehow, your file magically got converted into a directory ...

Works just fine for me.

(WJJFM?)

Reading http://cygwin.com/problems.html would probably be helpful.

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