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From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: rmdir
Message-ID: <28510023@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 17:08:17 GMT
References: <1991Feb06.152659.5952@ZYX.SE>
Organization: HP-Sales Office-The Netherlands
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Arndt Jonasson writes :

> "uname -a" says: HP-UX coca 7.0P0826 B 9000/350 coca

Rob Slotemaker writes :

> Shouldn't uname -a report "HP-UX coca 7.0 B 9000/350 coca" ?

  Indeed your system should *not* say "7.0P0826". This is an HP internal
prerelease ("P" for prerelease and "0826" for August 26 (1989). Rob was
still a customer at the time, so he probably did not know. And yes:
Smart customers can become HP employees :-)).
  The official 7.0 release came out over a year ago, so that is what you
should have and run.
  While your current problem might not be related to the use of
prerelease software, I strongly advise you to install the official 7.0
release.

  And just to make you feel better, I just did the following on my
diskless client :

franks$ rmdir /
rmdir: /: Is a directory
franks$ pwd
/users/franks
franks$ mkdir one
franks$ touch one/two
franks$ rmdir one
rmdir: one: Directory not empty

  Why the two messages are different? Beats me. They are both right. And
who said that UNIX will always give the same answer? :-)

Frank Slootweg, Dutch Customer Response Center.