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

[AEF]

On Apr 21, 2:44 am, "Bob Eager" <rd... at spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:17:48 UTC, AEF <spamsink2... 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?)
>
> Nothing at all; just a silly restriction. I bet that 'cat dirname  od'
> would work.

Unfortunately not:

admin at aef-sol:$ ls -ld Documents
drwxr-xr-x 7 admin staff 14 2009-03-27 19:17 Documents
admin at aef-sol:$ cat Documents  od
cat: Documents: Is a directory
cat: od: No such file or directory
admin at aef-sol:$ cat Documents | od
cat: Documents: Is a directory
0000000
admin at aef-sol:$

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AEF