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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>From: "one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com" <one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com>
>>Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 20:15:45 GMT
>>
>>It seems that cp.c source code has the same version for alpha and beta.
>>It can be told by running cp --version.
> 
> 
> "cp --version" is not telling the whole story.  You need to actually
> compare the sources to see if anything changed.
> 
> In any case, it is not productive to try to look for the source
> changes in order to debug a problem, in my experience.  It is much
> more productive to debug the problem itself by stepping with a
> debugger through the code.  It is possible that you will find that
> some library function and not cp's code itself is causing the failure,
> but knowing that is already a big step forward.
> 

I need to uninstall the old version of djgpp first and reinstall
the latest version. I may do it later.

Thanks.

> TIA

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