From: Richard Sharman (sharman@Software.Mitel.COM)
Date: 07/02/92 

From: sharman@Software.Mitel.COM (Richard Sharman)
Subject: Re: Copying devices
Date: 3 Jul 1992 04:49:27 GMT

> If I wish to create my own root floppy, I need to copy the contents of
> the /dev directory.

I was doing this yesterday with "cp +rec" (recursive copy) of the
root disk. (I copied the whole root disk including /dev.)

I tried doing just /dev now, and found:

        cp /dev /tmp/dev goes nuts! it looks at the devices
        cp +rec /dev /tmp/dev works, but creates /tmp/dev/dev
        cp +rec /dev /tmp works fine (creates /tmp/dev)

(The last two have to be done as root.)