[Rd] file.copy() problems on WinNT (PR#1085)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

Looks like it is written to expect text files.

Please try making the file opens in R_AppedFile binary, and tell us if
that solves it.

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 ligges@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de wrote:

> For some files, file.copy() doesn't copy these files correctly.
>
> Here you will find a file (Bitmap, 769Kb) to reproduce the problem:
>  http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/leute/ligges/R/test1.bmp
>
> Using
>  file.copy("c:/test1.bmp", "c:/test2.bmp", overwrite = TRUE)
> produces a second file with the size of ~1.4 Mb:
>  http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/leute/ligges/R/test2.bmp
>
> To reduce size, I put both files into following zip archive:
>  http://www.statistik.uni-dortmund.de/leute/ligges/R/test.zip
>
> Using file.copy() with the same file on Solaris and Linux works fine.
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
> --please do not edit the information below--
>
> Version:
>  platform = i386-pc-mingw32
>  arch = x86
>  os = Win32
>  system = x86, Win32
>  status =
>  major = 1
>  minor = 3.1
>  year = 2001
>  month = 08
>  day = 31
>  language = R
>
> Windows NT 4.0 (build 1381) Service Pack 6
>
> Search Path:
>  .GlobalEnv, package:ctest, Autoloads, package:base
>
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