> Neal H Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > cp should not copy passive translator settings. > > > > Why not? And what is the right way to copy them? > > Because cp is supposed to copy the data of the file; it should read > the data. > > For example, on Linux, if you do > mknod /dev/foo ... > cp /dev/foo /tmp/bar > > then /tmp/bar is *not* a special file, it's the *contents* of what you > get when you read /dev/foo.
That is not the case with `cp -a', however.
