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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <93dc1d2f-7186-461c-ba17-7791fb0e4e07 at h23g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> 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:$

   So you've got a version of cat and a version of od that think they
   shouldn't be able to handle directories.  I'd try dd next, but it's
   worth looking to see if this directory is on a UFS, NFS, or some
   other volume because it might be the file system forcing the error.