On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 10:55:21AM -0500, Dan Papasian wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 09:33:17PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 06:32:35PM -0500, Dan Papasian wrote: > > > Can you even tell the difference between GNU cp and BSD cp? > > > > Yes, no cp -a on FreeBSD (not on 3.3, I just checked). > > Do any specifications dictate this feature? What is it, anyway? > It has been awhile since I've read the SUSv2 page on cp, but I highly > doubt it is there.
So what? Linux can't evolve beyond being an implementation of SUSv2? > Perhaps the GNU people should at least inform people that this is a > non-standard > feature. Personally, I think it should be axed.. there is nothing > worse then seeing a linux admin stumble around a UNIX box when he is hired by > a non-linux-using company.... What, we should all work with the lowest common denominator? Are you using ed or ex to edit your messages and mailx to read them, on a VT-100 terminal then? Using plain /bin/sh for your shell? I should hope so with a comment like that. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.
