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

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
(snip, I wrote) 
>> In the case of NFS, reading directories doesn't make much sense.
 
> As much sense as reading other directories with cat or od.  :-)

Well, in the beginning there was only one unix file format.

For some time after that, any given system would only have one,
so such programs would be system dependent, but otherwise would
work just fine.  (Possibly using include files to find
the appropriate fields.)

With NFS, the underlying directory could be any unix format,
VMS, HPFS, FAT, NTFS, VMS, CMS, or any other system that
I forgot that has an NFS server.  Some of those don't make
directory information available to unprivileged users.

-- glen