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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ln -f, POSIX requirements
Message-ID: <13469@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 1 Aug 90 21:25:40 GMT
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In article <14020102@hpisod2.HP.COM> decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) writes:
>Cp and mv were changed in various other ways as well, so that none of
>them are consistent with each other or ln in their default behavior
>with respect to existing files.

Oh, for Christ's sake!  If 1003.2 isn't going to standardize existing
practice, they could at least try to avoid conflicting with it!