- To: <wayne at reliant dot immure dot com>
- Subject: Re: cp returns status of 1
- From: Upat54wo at aol dot com
- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:52:20 EDT
All servers are NT 4.0 sp 6. I am running from a client station also NT 4.0 sp 6.
Thanks again!
In a message dated Thu, 18 Oct 2001 4:10:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Wayne Willcox <wayne@reliant.knighthammer.com> writes:
> what version of windows are you using? Win9x is particularly bad about
> returning incorrect return codes. Of course what win9x returns is a 0
> not a 1 in my experience. This is because Windows really does not use
> a return code like UNIX does. Windows returns a 0 in pretty much all
> conditions. When I am writing code for Windows9x I never depend on
> the return code, it is usually wrong.
>
> what are the servers NT , UNIX and Samba, AIX and cifs?
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:57:23AM -0400, Upat54wo@aol.com wrote:
> > Can someone explan to me why "cp - /cygdrive/x/file /cygdrive/y/file" returns a status of 1?
> >
> > Both drives are mapped drives and are on different servers. Comparing bytes through Explorer indicates source and destination files are identical. Cygwin is set up with "binmode" as the default.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
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