dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan) (05/23/88)
In article <216100035@trsvax> johnm@trsvax.UUCP writes: > 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. Try as I may, I cannot reproduce this problem. Depending upon the number of files currently in the a: drive, I either get the help screen, or a message saying that the destination must be a directory when coping multiple files. Any help you can give in reproducing the problem will be appreciated. > 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. This is indeed a serious bug with not only cp, but with mv as well. It is actually worse with mv since the source file will be deleted after the "successful" move. I will call Peter later this morning with both problem reports, and will post corrected modules ASAP. Thanks for reporting them. . . . Dick -- Dick Flanagan, W6OLD GEnie: FLANAGAN UUCP: ...!ucbvax!ucscc!slvblc!dick Voice: +1 408 336 3481 Internet: slvblc!dick@ucscc.UCSC.EDU LORAN: N037 04.7 W122 04.6 USPS: PO Box 155, Ben Lomond, CA 95005