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From: hclausen@adspdk.CBMNET (Henrik Clausen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  cp-mv-rm1.1 command substitute
Message-ID: <hclausen.2093@adspdk.CBMNET>
Date: 31 Jul 90 16:56:32 GMT
References: <2666@mindlink.UUCP>
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>In article <2666@mindlink.UUCP> a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) writes:
>     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'm a date-stamp fanatic, too, so I've put the following into my
Shell-Startup file:

Alias cp "copy clone "

   Simple, eh?

                                         -Henrik

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