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Date:      Mon, 05 Feb 2001 11:28:04 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Stephen McKay <mckay@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/cp cp.1 
Message-ID:  <64873.981365284@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Feb 2001 18:02:39 PST." <200102040202.f1422dJ34045@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 18:02:39 PST, Stephen McKay wrote:

>   Modified files:
>     bin/cp               cp.1 
>   Log:
>   In the hope of saving others from hours of tedious recovery work,
>   document that cp still isn't very useful for recursive copies even
>   with the -R flag.  This is because hard links are broken by cp.

I like the fact that Solaris just doesn't offer this functionality.
After all, we have tar(1). :-)

If it ain't fixed, don't serve it.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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