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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: cp file2/ file2/ (with no -r on 4.2)
Message-ID: <4872@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-Jan-85 00:58:06 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  6 00:58:06 1985
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"cp dir somewhere" will do a byte copy of the directory on most any Unix.
This behavior is useless enough, and confusing enough to the naive users,
that we altered cp to complain and refuse.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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