dpatrick@convex.UUCP (05/09/88)
Parts 1 through 4 haven't made here. Did anyone get these parts? Doug Patrick ihnp4!convex!dpatrick dpatrick@convex.UUCP
johnm@trsvax.UUCP (05/19/88)
In reference to PICNIX... While many of the commands are improved and quite nice, DON'T use the 'cp' command. It has actually gotten worse. 1) 'cp a:*' without any destination directory used to come up with some message about needing a destination directory and the built in help for the command. Not any more. Now it will start copying files on drive a all over one another. 2) 'cp picnix3.arc a:' was supposed to copy the picnix archive to my a drive so that I could give it to a friend. Except that it wouldn't unarchive when he tried it (or the second or third time). Then I noticed that the archive is 418K, way to big for a 360K floppy. But the message 'Error while writing to a:/picnix.arc' that would have come up with previous versions of cp never showed up. What an improvement. "Let's not bother the users with those trivial disk errors..." John Munsch