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[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bill Randall (Wed, 1 Aug 2007 16:48:49 -0400):

> > To the best of my knowledge on *nix it will copy 0 length files.
> > Windows will not.
>
> C:\>copy autoexec.bat auto.tst
>         1 file(s) copied.
>
> C:\>dir auto*
>  Volume in drive C has no label.
>  Volume Serial Number is 6039-128B
>
>  Directory of C:\
>
> 05/23/2005  11:20 AM                 0 auto.tst
> 05/23/2005  11:20 AM                 0 AUTOEXEC.BAT
>
> Works fine.

Microsoft apparently "fixed" this somewhere along the way, as it was
a known issue with MS-DOS and earlier versions of Windows that COPY
would not copy zero-length files.

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