Weird bug with cp -f [solution that works for me]

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Oct 5 16:09:00 GMT 2004


On Oct  5 08:48, Brian Dessent wrote:
> I guess it's been a while since "Peter Norton" had f-all to do with
> actually writing the software.  Although back in the early 90s his "PC
> Tools" or whatever it was called were pretty useful.  Can't say I'm a
> fan of the stuff now though.  Seems like it's standard practise to take
> firewall software (which you would think could be made light and
> efficient since it's just packetfiltering after all) and turn it into a
> bloated steaming pile of eyecandy-laiden goo.  What _are_ all those tens
> of megabytes of install data for????

Brian, that bright red GUI with green characters, playing the national
anthem of choice was also made for *you*!  All that ingratitude is sooo
disappointing...


Corinna



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