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To: Stephen McKay <mckay@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/cp cp.1 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 03 Feb 2001 18:02:39 PST."
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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 11:28:04 +0200
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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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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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