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From: greyham@ausonics.OZ (Greyham Stoney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: directory copying with cp; broken?
Message-ID: <48@ausonics.OZ>
Date: 11 Oct 88 06:17:31 GMT
References: <30506@bbn.COM>
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in article <30506@bbn.COM>, mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) says:
] From article <40@ausonics.OZ>, by greyham@ausonics.OZ (Greyham Stoney):
]> in article <8540@smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) says:
]>> [stuff about what I (Greyham) said]
]> [pretty silly reply by me (Greyham)]
] [with which Wayne agreed; and I (Greyham) agree too, but then he said....]
]
] * It would be silly to remove functionality from file _processing_
]   programs such as wc.

Sorry.... I must misunderstand you. You aren't suggesting using wc on a
directory are you? It's got inode numbers and stuff in there; you won't get the
right answer. (whatever you percieve the "right" answer to be)

	Grey.
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