change to behavior of '&' in pattern substitution replacement string; fix for blank lines in multiline commands saved in command history

support/mkdist

@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ do
 	case "$type" in
 	d)	mkdir $newdir/$fname ;;
 	f)	cp -p $SRCDIR/$fname $newdir/$fname ;;
+	F)	cp $SRCDIR/$fname $newdir/$fname ;;
 	s)	ln -s $mode $newdir/$fname ; mode= ;;		# symlink
 	l)	ln $mode $newdir/$fname ; mode= ;;		# hard link
 	*)	echo "unknown file type $type" 1>&2 ;;