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From: wnp@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MKS cp/cpio (was Re: MKS correct phone nr)
Message-ID: <7365@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 1 Mar 89 13:19:12 GMT
References: <24488@amdcad.AMD.COM> <4702@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: wnp@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
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In article <3495@sdsu.UUCP> vinge@sdsu.UCSD.EDU (Vernor Vinge) writes:
>Why would anyone want to buy the MKS product when their "cp" does not
>understand "-r"? YUCK!


MKS Toolkit is advertised as "System V.3 compatible". Well, I just
looked at the System V.3 manual page for "cp", and IT does not under-
stand "-r".

It is therefore a perfectly good reason to buy MKS Toolkit for compatibility
of one's DOS environment with the UNIX environment one is used to.

The capitalized exclamation above is a childish manifestation of
the "BSD is all there is" mentality.
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