[Info-vax] Request description of UFS for VMS person

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
 
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> (Speaking of DUMP <blah>.DIR;1: Why do only some versions of 'od' read
> directory files? The version I have on a Solaris 10.something box -- I
> think it's the gnu or gcc or Linux-like or whatever version --
> complains that "Its a directory"? Well, duh. Another machine with
> Solaris 8 could read it just fine. We're talking about dumping bytes
> in a file. Is there something hard about this in Unix?)

Most unix file systems allow one to open and read
the contents of directories, but not all.  Specifically,
NFS doesn't allow it.  

-- glen