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From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: cp gives poor error message (so what else is new?)
Summary: cp and errors
Message-ID: <627@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 89 13:15:46 GMT
References: <210038@speclab.bgp-usgs.gov> <210039@speclab.bgp-usgs.gov>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <210039@speclab.bgp-usgs.gov>, rclark@speclab.bgp-usgs.gov (Roger N. Clark) writes:
> OK so how about a new unix command: "copy" that gives real error
> messages.

Actually, I would be satisfied with a cp that allows unlimited numbers
of files to be passed in.  I had a directory with several hundred files
that I wanted to copy, and a (cp * dir) gave me an error that there were
too many parameters.  The cp worked on a Sun, which is what I used over
the NFS network to make the copy...

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