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From: aduncan@rhea.trl.oz.au (Allan Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: cp-mv-rm1.1 command substitute
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Date: 1 Aug 90 23:44:27 GMT
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From article <2666@mindlink.UUCP>, by a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs):
>      No, I don't.  The main reason I stick with Matt Dillon's Shell2.07m
> is that its cp command assumes CLONE by default.  I'm a date-stamp
> fanatic; I depend on them for program version control, and so does make.
> Perhaps the best solution would be to have an environment variable to
> determine the default action of any copy (are you listening, Commodore?).

I agree with the desire for clone as the default, but I get around this
with 'alias cp "copy [] clone"' somewhere in the startup.

What I really want on 2.0 is "sort" on the list command, as in ARP.

Is it time now to start the 2.1 requests? :-)

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