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Subject: Re: make 3.79.1 problem with copy command (Windows XP)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 00:18:18 +0200
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org> wrote in message news:9003-Thu22Jul2004221332+0300-eliz AT gnu DOT org...
>
> Try
>
> test1:
> <tab> cmd.exe /c copy longfilename.txt a.txt

Thanks! Problem solved!

> The problem here is that XP invokes COMMAND.COM as the shell for DOS
> programs, and it looks like the version of COMMAND.COM they use
> doesn't support long file names.  CMD does.

You are right. COMMAND.COM is used. Strange.
Didn't I read in the documentation that "make" uses COMSPEC to determine
which shell to invoke?

> (You should be much better off using cp.exe from GNU Fileutils
> instead of COPY and othet shell built-ins.)

OK, how do I emulate "copy /a" using "cp.exe" (truncate on End Of Text)?

-RoB-