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From: Robert R Schneck <schneck AT math DOT berkeley DOT edu>
Subject: cp, install, and the .exe extension
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 22:09:55 +0000 (UTC)
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This is a bug in the fileutils packaging (I think).

Recently I noticed that "install" has special handling for the .exe 
extension, and "cp" does not.  In the fileutils source tarball
I notice there are three files:
  copy.c  copy.c.cgf  copy.c.orig

If I replace "copy.c" with either of the other two and rebuild, I get a 
"cp" which *does* have special handling for the .exe extension.
Did the fileutils maintainer just forget to do this?

Incidentally, the Cygwin User's Guide specifically claims that "install" 
won't handle the .exe extension; but currently it does.

Robert


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