On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 07:19:25AM +0000, Richard Adams wrote:
> > > You have made a classic mistake in the README also,
> > >
> > > cp testfile /dev/cwkeyer ????
> > >
> > > It should be
> > >
> > > cat testfile > /dev/cwkeyer
> > >
> >
> > But it works, right?!
>
> Yes but its not correct and another thing is redhat places an aliases in
> roots .bash_profile so what one see is;
>
> cp testfile /dev/cwkeyer
> cp: overwrite /dev/cwkeyer'?
>
> WOW, some folks will have a hart attack when they see that.
As I have worked on different UNIXes I have never noticed such behaviour.
Therefore, I would say that it is the redhat problem that alias is not
well defined - not checking for special files - and not mine.
But hey, I will edit README and redhat users will be satisfied as we
the Debian users are. :-))
Regards, Ivo.
