Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry 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 Article-I.D.: utzoo.4872 Posted: Sun Jan 6 00:58:06 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Jan-85 00:58:06 EST References: <132@encore.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 6 "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. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry