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From: dick@slvblc.UUCP (Dick Flanagan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Error in PICNIX V3 cp and mv (was Re: Missing PICNIX...)
Summary: cp and mv don't report write errors
Message-ID: <2031@slvblc.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 88 07:52:35 GMT
References: <3047@charon.unm.edu> <216100035@trsvax>
Reply-To: slvblc!dick@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Dick Flanagan)
Organization: SLV Systems Group, Ben Lomond, California
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Disclaimer: none

In article <216100035@trsvax> johnm@trsvax.UUCP writes:
> 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.

Try as I may, I cannot reproduce this problem.  Depending upon the
number of files currently in the a: drive, I either get the help screen,
or a message saying that the destination must be a directory when coping
multiple files.  Any help you can give in reproducing the problem will
be appreciated.

> 	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.

This is indeed a serious bug with not only cp, but with mv as well.  It
is actually worse with mv since the source file will be deleted after
the "successful" move.

I will call Peter later this morning with both problem reports, and will
post corrected modules ASAP.  Thanks for reporting them. . . .

Dick

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