Re: cp.exe

[Matt Schalit]

Frederic Lung wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am not sure if the following is a bug or a feature :
> (I use windows 98 on an ACER 720)
>
> I type :
> mkdir AA
> cd AA
> mkdir BB
> cp -pR BB CC
>
> I get:
> cp.exe: cc: permission denied


Thanks for posting a repeatable example.  Would you
please tell us the output of:

    cp --version

That'll help the dev team.  If you're not up to version 4.1.5,
would it be possible to try that out and report back?


Best,
Matthew


(As a completely off topic aside, I get 100-fold the hack attempts
on my systems from wanadoo.fr than from any other domain on Earth.
I wish the French systems weren't so vulnerable.)





> That confuses me...
> (The initial problem was that I wanted to save a file tree with cp -a , it
> produced the same result)
>
> Thanks
>
> Frederic