Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!unido!laura!julien!juergen From: juergen@julien.uucp (Juergen Stuber) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: WARNING: GNUish mv is dangerous Message-ID: <2458@laura.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 90 11:48:11 GMT References: Sender: news@laura.UUCP Reply-To: juergen@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Juergen Stuber) Distribution: comp Organization: Universitaet Dortmund Lines: 26 In article pinard@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Pinard) writes: >Several MSDOS ports of GNU utilities may be found by ftping >nic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100], in directory pub/msdos/gnudos, which is >yet in organization state. Yesterday I got the executables for the GNU file utilities, filutl13.zip from there. This archive contains a mv.exe which is DANGEROUS. mv ..\dir1\file ..\dir2 will remove file, complaining about some file with a funny path not existing. There seems to be some confusion between '/' and '\'. Sorry, at the moment I don't have this error message here. Juergen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Juergen Stuber, Dortmund, West Germany email: juergen@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Das ist ein Dangerou." - Helmut Kohl Witz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Juergen Stuber, Dortmund, West Germany email: juergen@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------