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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 15:47:07 -0400
To: "Soren Andersen" <soren AT wonderstorm DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: cp error -- oh the great sanity of *nix tools?!?
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At 03:29 PM 6/25/2001, Soren Andersen wrote:
>It IS still  `cp' s fault, too. The message is cp's utterly unhelpful and
>misleading way of telling me that the source files named as command
>parameters don't exist -- and what the heck is THAT? That's a bona-fide BUG
>if ever I was bitten by one. I am really astonished at this, in GNU
>software.


Would this be the same bug in cp that Chris Faylor announced a fix for last 
week?


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