Philip Guenther wrote:
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> Hmm, I don't see that error message in the stock /bin/cp or /bin/rm.
> Are you running your own version of them or have shell script wrappers
> for them or something?  What's the output of "which cp rm"?
>   

Is it maybe builtin to ksh? Besides, the error message is probably from 
a runtime lib, right?
Anway:

    $ echo $SHELL
    /bin/ksh
    $ which rm
    /bin/rm
    $ ls -l ccreply.rex
    -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  4674 Oct  3 12:11 ccreply.rex
    $ whoami
    jax
    $ rm ccreply.rex
    override rwxr-xr-x  root/wheel for ccreply.rex? y
    rm: ccreply.rex: Invalid character in program
    $ uname -a
    OpenBSD elephant.jaxrcfb 4.3 4.3#0 i386

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