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From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: symlink(2) [Was: Re: tcsh.cat]
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 22:30:58 +1000 (EST)
Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote:

BE> cp always did this (except in the broken case of a broken symlink).  POSIX
BE> just clarifies it.  From the FreeBSD manpage for cp(1):

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