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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <WglZZiqnWHoT at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> 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, 

Current version of dd won't do it either.  Of course, you could grab the
source to cat and write your own version that ignores it being a directory.
Or just copy the stripped down version fromt he K&R C book.  :-)

>                                                                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.

I didn't look at the source, but I assume it is the utility.  Another case
of protecting people from themselves a tthe expense of the people who really
need the capability. (Have you ever seen what "cating" binary data to a
terminal can do?  :-)

bill
 

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