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From: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: df under Xenix 2.2.3 (and earlier?)
Message-ID: <845@ccssrv.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 89 03:06:18 GMT
References: <228@flagship.UUCP>
Reply-To: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Control-C Software, Inc., Beaverton, OR
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In article <228@flagship.UUCP> lucio@flagship.UUCP (Lucio) writes:

+ In sendbatch there is a test for the amount of free space available ...
+ On my machine the test should read:
+ 
+ 	df /usr/spool
+ 
+ [to which] df reports:
+ 
+ 	df: /usr/spool not block special

This may be a BSD vs Sys5 problem.  In SunOS 3.5 (based on 4.2 BSD) you can
provide a directory name and df will figure out the proper device.  Isn't
Xenix a Sys5 derivative?

Clearly the workaround is to change the df call to specify the proper device.