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From: Robert R Schneck <schneck AT math DOT berkeley DOT edu>
Subject: Re: cp, install, and the .exe extension
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 18:33:20 +0000 (UTC)
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Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:09:55PM +0000, Robert R Schneck wrote:
>>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.

Indeed.  Does this mean there is some reason that it is considered 
harmful to have cp do it, but appropriate to have install do it?
If so, can you explain?  I don't question, I'm just curious!

In any case, I'd like to put in a request to change the error message cp 
gives when "cp foo bar" is tried and only foo.exe exists.  
Currently it says
cp: `foo' and `bar' are the same file
which is needlessly obscure.

Robert


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