Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Stupid me; what I didn't check is whether files were actually being
> copied to the target msdos dir (in this case '/opendos/'). They are
> being copied! But cp gives me a message to the contrary, for instance:
> bernie$ cp newsgroups /opendos/
> cp: /opendos/newsgroups: Operation not permitted
>
> But the file newsgroups is there in /opendos/! And, no, it isn't a
> question of legal dos filenames, as I've checked this with files
> conforming to 8.3 dos convention. I scoured the man page for cp, but to
> no avail. Can I alias cp with an option to not produce this meaningless
> message? But where does it come from??
I think cp wants to set permissions. But it can't on a msdos filesystem.
Add the "quiet" line to the mount options to get rid of these messages.
Ciao,
Martin
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