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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:57:46 -0500
From: Mark Blackburn <marklist AT fangorn DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: cp.exe bug
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Mark Blackburn wrote:

> Ross Boulet wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Above is the makefile which produced the error.  The cause seems to 
>> be cp's
>> handling of a .exe file.  A simple way to get what I now see as a 
>> misleading
>> error message from cp is:
>>
>> $ touch foo.exe
>> $ cp foo bar    # note the absence of the .exe extension
>> cp: `foo' and `bar' are the same file
>>  
>>
> This problem still exists in the coreutils-5.2.0-1 package that I have 
> recently posted on cygwin-apps.
>
Correction: cp in coreutils returns the following message in the above case:
cp: cannot open `foo' for reading: No such file or directory

[...]

Mark Blackburn

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