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From: "Francis Litterio" <litterio AT pyxsys DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: cp -p fails with .exe files
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:43:53 -0400
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Cliff Hones wrote:

> Cygwin cp is ".exe" aware - meaning that "cp xxx yyy" will copy
xxx.exe to
> yyy.exe if xxx.exe exists (and xxx does not).  But "cp -p xxx yyy"
fails -
> it does the copy then reports that it is unable to preserve  the time
for "yyy".

This may be related (I see it in 1.3.1):

	bash$ rm -f foo bar foo.exe bar.exe  # Just to start clean.
	bash$ touch foo.exe
	bash$ cp foo bar
	cp: `foo' and `bar' are the same file

Apologies if this has been brought up before.
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Francis Litterio
franl AT world DOT std DOT com


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