copy of 1 byte long file fails

[dams]

Hello,

When using the File command to copy a file from the cd to the hard 
drive, we have the following problem : if the file contains only one 
byte (size of the file : 1 byte), equal to zero, the file copied is 
emtpy (size of the file : 0 byte)

That's somehow problematic, we wrote a small script that overwrites the 
files by doing printf "\0" > the_file  (something like that), but it's 
not really fun.

It fails on every linux distro we tested (mandrake 10.1, 2004.3 gentoo, 
fedora core 3, and maybe mandrake 9.2 (don't remeber)

thx!

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dams