On Jul 6, 2009, at 15:22 , Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> > Bill Hart wrote: >> I still don't understand exactly what that means, but I get the >> general gist, and agree it is not relevant here. >> >> So I think I can give this change a positive review as -p is >> certainly >> not *less* standard than -a. >> >> I have a trac account. I'll change it to positive review. >> >> Bill. > > > Thank you. > > I gather OS X did not support -p either, so on OS X, just the 'cp' > command was used. That would have been fine here actually. It > basically > just needs a single file copied. I think -p is universal, but -a is a > GNU specific flag, which neither OS X or Solaris supports. Forgive me if I'm missing something, but I'm pretty sure that 'cp -p' *is* supported on Mac OS X. I've checked this on both 10.4.11 and 10.5.7. Justin -- Justin C. Walker Curmudgeon-at-large -- Network, n., Difference between work charged for and work done --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
