Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > cp should not copy passive translator settings. > > Why not? And what is the right way to copy them?
Because cp is supposed to copy the data of the file; it should read the data. For example, on Linux, if you do mknod /dev/foo ... cp /dev/foo /tmp/bar then /tmp/bar is *not* a special file, it's the *contents* of what you get when you read /dev/foo.
