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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
