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From: rclark@speclab.bgp-usgs.gov (Roger N. Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: cp gives poor error message (so what else is new?)
Message-ID: <210039@speclab.bgp-usgs.gov>
Date: 4 Dec 89 18:48:20 GMT
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Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Branch of Geophysics, Denver
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I see and understand the points made by Rob Robason and Tim
Chambers.  However, as a Unix fan trying to get others to change to
unix, all efforts at conversion are useless when the convertees see
stuff like this.  Geez, they thought cp for copy was cryptic!  When
they error message is worse (even technically wrong in this case),
they will never try.

OK so how about a new unix command: "copy" that gives real error
messages.

Actually, I like the solution of language=american that would fix
the error messages.  But how many shell scripts will that break?

Roger