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From: jk0@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Jason Coughlin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Copying and preserving file info
Message-ID: <1989Dec11.185225.15922@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 11 Dec 89 18:52:25 GMT
References: <338@trux.UUCP>
Sender: jk0@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Jason Coughlin)
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From article <338@trux.UUCP>, by car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende):
> cp won't do it, cpdir won't do it, tar won't do it, etc...
> (and I don't want to do it by hand! chmod, chown, etc...)

yeah, BSD cp has a -p for preserve which preserves the file's date, time,
and umask during copying.  would be nice if someone (i'm too busy, sorry)
would implement this :-).

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Jason Coughlin ( jk0@sun.soe.clarkson.edu , jk0@clutx )
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