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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: directory copying with cp; broken?
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Date: 5 Oct 88 23:15:51 GMT
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In article <30506@bbn.COM> mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) writes:
>Indeed.  And more generally, a consistent way of handling directories
>(i.e. directory files) needs to be established.  In SunOS 3.4:
>  head, tail, cat <dir>     ==>  {works}

Are you sure about that?  In both SunOS 3.2 and SunOS 4.0,
	% cat .
	cat: read error: Is a directory
In straight 4.2BSD, if you read a directory, you get the file names &c,
but in SunOS 3.x and 4.x, a directory always appears to be empty.  So
"wc $Directory" in SunOS will always print "0 0 0".