[Info-vax] BACKUP/VERIFY/NEW_VERSION: bug or feature

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <mm9s1b$bo1$1 at news.kjsl.com>, helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de
(Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes: 

> Suppose one wants to a) use BACKUP to copy a file from one directory to
> another and b) not fail if a file with the same name and version number
> exists in the target directory and c) verify that the copy was OK.  b)
> implies /NEW_VERSION and c) implies /VERIFY.  But this combination will
> always fail if the new file in the target directory is different from
> the old file, which might be the reason for putting it there in the 
> first place.
> 
> Bug or feature?

Specifying the new version number for the target file will get it to 
work, but when using wildcards with a large number of files this might 
be impractical.