Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote:
Nice. The *Copy command can't copy in this one situation, so it is 'incapable.'It is perplexing as the copy command (the snipped part) had been set to Force the copy. It is also perplexing as it means that COPY is incapable of actually ... copying.
RISC OS is not a POSIX system. Force (F) has always meant 'overwrite locked files,' not 'on error, delete destination and reattempt copy.' Maybe you should port cp if you want POSIX behaviour.
To emulate cp -Rf <source> <dest> (which seems to be what you want) in RISC OS you will need to execute *Wipe <dest> RF~C~V and *Copy <source> <dest> R~C~V
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