From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: cubexyz@gmail.com (Mark Longridge)
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 20:16:46 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] Unix v1/v2 cp command
Message-ID: <CADxT5N7aRiXkkh36_3TA=G=w_Y1iHJ-sptSV-aH2p2ELY+vaoQ@mail.gmail.com>

>> the cp command seems different from all other versions, I'm not sure I
>> understand it so I used the mv command instead which worked as expected.
>
> I'm intrigued; in what way is it different?

It seems that one must first cp a file to another file then do a mv to
actually put it into a different directory:

e.g. while in /usr/src

as ctr0.s
cp a.out ctr0.o
mv ctr0.o /usr/lib

...rather than trying to just "cp a.out /usr/lib/ctr0.o"

Mark