> From: Scott Reynolds
>
>>On Mon, 19 May 1997, Graham, James wrote:
>>
>> Looking at what was/is going on, this smells of hackery of the
>> most offensive kind.
>
>Hackery?  Hardly.  Note that the only utility affected by the change was
>cp(1), which is pretty strong evidence that it was a hidden bug all along.

i'd hesitate to say that.  how about the other programs that take
might "/" as a valid argument?  ln...mv...rm (can you rm /? :)...are
they all okay?  (i'd check, but my -current box is not working right
now.  :-/)

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