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From: sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest)
Subject: file become unidentifiable after cvtrgy
Message-ID: <90Jun29.021718edt.18481@me.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: sun@hammer.me.UUCP (Andy Sun Anu-guest)
Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Date: 29 Jun 90 06:17:33 GMT

Hi there,

I have the following that I do not know if anything can be done:

I ran cvtrgy from an Apollo DN3000 running SR9.7 to convert a SR10.1 registry
from another node (a DN3500) to SR9.7. It ran to completion and everything
seems to be fine. However, I cannot run it anymore. When I looked at
/etc/registry, etc., they seem to lose their file type (i.e. whether it is
an ASCII file, binary file, or directory). Running "file /etc/registry"
gave me

registry:	nil

An ls -l shows it is a file (_rwxr_xr_x) but I cannot cat, vi or doing anything
to it (cat says no such file exists and vi says it is a directory). Is there
any way to regain the file identity? Is there a command that can assign a 
file type back to a file? Any suggestions are welcome.

Andy