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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:53:02 EDT
From: Upat54wo AT aol DOT com
Subject: Fwd: Re: cp returns status of 1
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:52:20 EDT
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Subject:Re: cp returns status of 1
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All servers are NT 4.0 sp 6.  I am running from a client station also NT 4.0 sp 6.

Thanks again!

In a message dated Thu, 18 Oct 2001  4:10:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Wayne Willcox <wayne AT reliant DOT knighthammer DOT com> writes:

> 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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