From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Nov 5 12:31:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EFCB1530F for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 12:31:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA09363; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 15:29:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jobaldwi@vt.edu) Message-Id: <199911052029.PAA09363@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19991105203615.B12970@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 15:29:39 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Subject: RE: cp Cc: doc@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 05-Nov-99 Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > A question, > > following a discussion on the automake discussion list I tried to use > cp > -r and found that it was actually usable. > > From what I am able to glance from the source file cp.c it looks as > if > -r and -R do the same. > > If so, we porbably want to add this flag to the man page, but first I > wonder if -R and -r _are_ in fact the same. It's in the manpage already under the 'compatibility' section. --- John Baldwin -- http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message