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- From: mcook@fendahl.dev.cdx.mot.com (Michael Cook)
- Subject: Re: copy() primitive?
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 03:45:09 GMT
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- mmuegel@next3.corp.mot.com (Michael S. Muegel) writes:
-
- >If I am doing something like cp often I always write a function to do the
- >work since I am a stickler for error detection.
-
- Yes, me too. It would seem natural that operations like open() and print()
- should produce fatal errors if they couldn't do what you asked. How often do
- you want to do anything other than die when open() fails? How often do you
- want to ignore an I/O error? Hm...
-
- Michael.
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