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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: another unix joke
Keywords: rmdir joke
Message-ID: <8499@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 15 Sep 88 11:57:39 GMT
References: <8488@smoke.ARPA> <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <26090@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> bostic@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Keith Bostic) writes:
>> mkdir: foo/: No such file or directory
>> rmdir: foo/: Is a directory
>Though I'm not sure what you're trying say, ...

I just thought it was amusing that the "reasons" given for failure
of the operations were what they were.  Can't create a directory
because it doesn't exist yet; can't remove a directory because it
is a directory.