Re: copy-file: ok-if-already-exists versus mustbenew

[Lennart Borgman]

Luc Teirlinck wrote:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
>    I am trying to enhance my reading capabilities, but I can not understand 
>    the difference between the arguments ok-if-already-exists and mustbenew 
>    in the doc for `copy-file'. Can someone please explain this to me?
>
>
>   
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>    However it sounds like the second argument should be about modification
>    times, but the doc string does not say so.
>
> I do not understand this one.  I assume you mean the second _optional_
> argument.  From the docstring:
>   
By "second" I meant "mustbenew" here.