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To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libss Makefile 
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>  * From: Bill Paul <wpaul@freefall.cdrom.com>
> 
>  *   Repeat after me kids: "I will not try to install files into a directory
>  *   when I'm not sure whether or not that directory exists."
> 
> I've been bitten by this several times.  Maybe we can make a new flag
> to cp/install that says "the destination should be a directory...if
> not, report an error".

Append "/." to the directory name.