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From: kow@gmdzi.uucp (Oliver Kowalski)
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Subject: Bug in SUN-OS rcp
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Date: 7 Aug 90 14:22:03 GMT
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I've been confronted with a 'strange' behaviour of the SUN-OS (Version
4.0) "rcp" command. Due to my own fault, I wrote:

	% rcp My_beloved_file To_the_wrong_machine:

where 'To_the_wrong_machine' was the name of my current host. As a result
the command exits with the error message:

	rcp: My_beloved_file: file changed size

and the contents "My_beloved_file" seemed to be that of the /etc/hosts
file.  This bug also exists on bsd4.2 systems, but SUN-OS 4.1 seems to
work fine.

Oliver C. Kowalski					     kow@zi.gmd.dbp.de
German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD)	kow@gmdzi.UUCP
Mail: Schloss Birlinghoven, PO-Box 1240, D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1, West Germany