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From: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: YAACB (Yet Another ARP Copy Bug)
Message-ID: <257@gtss.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 88 13:53:02 GMT
Reply-To: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland)
Organization: Georgia Tech School of Physics
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I habitually use
	copy nil: filename
to create empty files.  Under ARP1.1 I get the error message (if memory serves)
	Cannot open nil:
On the other hand
	copy filename nil:
is accepted without complaint (as long as 'filename' exists, of course).

Needless to say, the original AMIGADOS copy doesn't have this flaw.  I would
like to know where it crept into ARP.  I fear that it is likely to be in
arp.library, in which case it may rear its ugly little head in other places
as well.
-- 
- It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be  -
- coming up it.                                        -- Henry Allen  -
Charles Cleveland    Georgia Tech School of Physics    Atlanta, GA 30332
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