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Re: MV bug (?)

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From: Phillip Vandry
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:03
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Gregory Ross Thompson <gregt+@CMU.EDU> writes:

>  Well, I just looked at my code (not the most up to date, but I can't
>imagine that Jawaid tore it up too much while adding more error
>reporting, or whatever), and if the second file on the command line
>doesn't exist, it DOESN'T print out an error message...

Hmm. This is weird. I'll check again, but I do remember having trouble renaming
a disk (since the new name doesn't exist). I think I use cp -vrp mv file1 file2

>  Are you using Sys 6.0?  Are you using an official release of GNO?

Yes, and yes.

>Are you using a really old version of cp?  I gave a few people copies

No.

>to test a LONG time ago, and it's possible that that was a bug in the
>tester version, but I don't know.  In any case, there is no bug in cp.
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Subject: Re: MV bug (?)
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