On 2010-03-31, at 3:59 PM, Levente Uzonyi wrote:

> IMHO #copyFile:toFile: shouldn't exist, it's just a utility method, totally unrelated to FileDirectory. It also assumes that the files are in "ascii" mode which is wrong.
> 
> 
> Levente


+1  In Sophie we replaced this with a primitive to which had the responsibility to ask the operating system to copy the files. 
The complexity of meta-data (security, dates/times, Access lists, stuff) on a *file* make Squeak's desire to copy just the bits rather 1970 ish... 
Oh wait pre that since it doesn't preserve the from file security settings either...


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