Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:21:39 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:36:07 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> mkdir thisisalong
> cd thisisalong
> mkdir junk
> mv junk junk
> 
> This will create junk\junk\... nesting until it fails.
> 
> If you do the test under a short name it seems to work correctly (gives
> a message about cannot move 'junk' to a subdirectory of itself).
> 
> I have verified this behavior under Win98 and Windows 2000 using an older
> copy of the filutils - but I am told it is seen on newer versions as 
> well.

What version fails like that?  I cannot reproduce the problem with
Fileutils 4.0 on Windows 98.