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Re: cp, install, and the .exe extension
Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:09:55PM +0000, Robert R Schneck wrote:
>>If I replace "copy.c" with either of the other two and rebuild, I get a
>>"cp" which *does* have special handling for the .exe extension.
>>Did the fileutils maintainer just forget to do this?
>
> No.
Indeed. Does this mean there is some reason that it is considered
harmful to have cp do it, but appropriate to have install do it?
If so, can you explain? I don't question, I'm just curious!
In any case, I'd like to put in a request to change the error message cp
gives when "cp foo bar" is tried and only foo.exe exists.
Currently it says
cp: `foo' and `bar' are the same file
which is needlessly obscure.
Robert
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