cp file2/ file2/ (with no -r on 4.2)

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.UUCP
Sun Jan 6 15:58:06 AEST 1985


"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



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