ptw@encore.UUCP (P. Tucker Withington) (01/05/85)
Try cp with two dirs as arguments and no -r on 4.2. A "copy" of the first dir
is put in the second. By copy I mean a data file which looks like the first
dir, but isn't a dir. Is this supposed to be a feature?
o.o --tucker
~henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (01/06/85)
"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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