Justin C. Walker wrote:
> 
> 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


Sorry, I mis-typed that.

I meant to say OS X did not support '-a'. As I said. '-p' is universal, 
but '-a' is not.

Dave

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