Re: Prosel-1

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

jmk3@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Jay Krell) writes:

>Much to my dissapointment, I discovered today that Prosel-16 doesn't copy
>option lists. Thus, Mac files will lose their types and other "Finder info".
>It's a shame, since the file utils are otherwise so complete and robust.

ProSel-16 does a lot of things wrong. It often enforces all caps, doesn't
support many GS/OS conventions. And so on...

OTOH, not many programs DO copy the option list. I just checked the source
code for cp and found that it doesn't. Hey! I never use anything but cp!

And frankly, I don't care.
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