B20, Win95: cp destroys file

[Earnie Boyd]

---"Henry S. Warren, Jr." <hank@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> If you copy, using cp, a file to itself, and the target and source
files
> differ in capitalization, then the content of the file is wiped out;
it
> becomes a file of 0-length.  Example: "cp hilbert.c hilbert.C" trashes
> file hilbert.c.  
>    The Win95 "copy" command gives the error message "File cannot be
> copied onto itself" in this situation (much preferable)

Hmm.  It used to do it that way in b19.  Is it possible that inode or
stat routine has become buggy?

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