Bug in A/UX 2.0.1

[Kent Sandvik, 120dB or more]

In article <11189 at ncar.ucar.edu> murphy at hao.hao.ucar.edu (Murphy) writes:

>This is a "feature" of the Finder, when copying files whose
>names begin with a period between filesystems (I think) and is
>not A/UX dependent.
>I had a similar problem under MacOS copying a .joverc
>file---took ages to track down what was going wrong because the
>file in question was buried about four levels deep and there
>were no obvious clues as to what the problem was.  The problem 
>derives (I seem to recall) from the fact that the MacOS drivers have
>names that begin with a period.


Well, it's not problem, it's a MacOS system dependency! :-). All
driver names should start with a '.', and beware those end users
who would like to name their files with a starting dot.

Kent Sandvik



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