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From: johnm@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Missing PICNIX parts 1 thru 5
Message-ID: <216100035@trsvax>
Date: 19 May 88 12:58:00 GMT
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Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!johnm    May 19 07:58:00 1988


In reference to PICNIX...

While many of the commands are improved and quite nice, DON'T use the 'cp'
command.  It has actually gotten worse.

	1) 'cp a:*' without any destination directory used to come up
	with some message about needing a destination directory and the
	built in help for the command.  Not any more.  Now it will start
	copying files on drive a all over one another.

	2) 'cp picnix3.arc a:' was supposed to copy the picnix archive to my
	a drive so that I could give it to a friend.  Except that it wouldn't
	unarchive when he tried it (or the second or third time).  Then I
	noticed that the archive is 418K, way to big for a 360K floppy.  But
	the message 'Error while writing to a:/picnix.arc' that would have
	come up with previous versions of cp never showed up.  What an
	improvement.  "Let's not bother the users with those trivial disk
	errors..."

John Munsch