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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:23:50 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cp, install, and the .exe extension
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:09:55PM +0000, Robert R Schneck wrote:
>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?

No.

cgf

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