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From: Robert R Schneck <schneck AT math DOT berkeley DOT edu>
Subject: Re: cp breaking weirdly when trying to copy an executable without specifying the .exe extension
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 21:25:12 +0000 (UTC)
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Max Bowsher <maxb AT ukf DOT net> wrote:
>>> $ touch foo.exe
>>> $ cp foo bar
>>> cp: `foo' and `bar' are the same file
>
> I suppose the answer is to simply patch coreutils to give a better
> error message in this case.

I submitted just such a patch in 
<E1AubuT-000Msq-81 AT mk-smarthost-8 DOT mail DOT uk DOT tiscali DOT com>
at
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-02/msg01167.html

Unfortunately, it was right before fileutils became part of coreutils.

Perhaps the new coreutils maintainer might take a look?

Robert


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