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SubjectRe: upper/lowercase with vfat issues


On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> > I would _like_ to see the actual directory contents. The main question
> > being: what to do with short entries.
>
> Somebody wanted to make this difficult:
>
> # od -c /dos/games
> od: /dos/games: Is a directory
> 0000000
>
> What a shame. Solaris doesn't gripe about this sort of thing.

Solaris doesn't, but many filesystems do (I'm on Solaris box right now,
% od -c .
0000000
% cat .
cat: input error on.: Is a directory
)
Besides, since we are looking for a stuff done both by 98 and by NT it's
going to be a diskette anyway. dd is your friend...


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