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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:09:45 -0500
From: Wayne Willcox <wayne AT reliant DOT knighthammer DOT com>
To: Upat54wo AT aol DOT com
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cp returns status of 1
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what version of windows are you using?  Win9x is particularly bad about
returning incorrect return codes.  Of course what win9x returns is a 0
not a 1 in my experience.  This is because Windows really does not use
a return code like UNIX does.  Windows returns a 0 in pretty much all 
conditions.  When I am writing code for Windows9x I never depend on 
the return code, it is usually wrong.

what are the servers NT , UNIX and Samba, AIX and cifs?

On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:57:23AM -0400, Upat54wo AT aol DOT com wrote:
> Can someone explan to me why "cp -  /cygdrive/x/file /cygdrive/y/file"  returns a status of 1?
> 
> Both drives are mapped drives and are on different servers.  Comparing bytes through Explorer indicates source and destination files are identical.  Cygwin is set up with "binmode" as the default.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
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