Thanks for the reply!
Indeed within the cygwin environment this stange behavior does not happen, cp -r behaves exactly as I would expect.
The bug does occur within any other command prompt for windows (M$ command prompt, and the JPSoft 4NT command prompt).
At some point in time I will get around to upgrading upgrading our core-utils, I will let this listserve know if they do fix this issue.
Thanks for all the awesome utilities!
Rob Schultheis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recognition Research Inc.
Bob Proulx wrote:
Robert Schultheis wrote:
I have discovered a bug in cp (fileutils) 4.1, and I am wondering if it has been fixed in later versions so I can notify our admins to upgrade our core-utils which is something I can not do myself , however I will need a dang good reason for them to do it.
I am running on Win2000 with SP4 which is likely a contributing factor.
Thank you for your nice bug report. But I cannot recreate the problem with a recent coreutils. Because you are running MS-Win2k I suspect there were bugs in the ported version that you are running. There are a lot of things that need to be mapped to make a MS system behave. It is a very difficult problem. Since we generally use GNU systems we can't help very much.
You did not say if you were using a Cygwin version of coreutils. But regardless I suggest you contact the Cygwin folks. They are the experts with the MS systems.
http://cygwin.com/
Hope that helps, Bob
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