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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Peculiar behaviour in SR10.0 (file-names)
Message-ID: <26259@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: 28 Dec 88 07:40:28 GMT
References: <1884@daimi.dk>
Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
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<1884@daimi.dk>, by jnp@daimi.dk (J|rgen N|rgaard):
> 	Assume <name> is a _plain_ file
> 	Then ls <name>/. results in
> 	'<name>/.'   !!!
> 	That is : what ought (?) to be a directory (<name>/.), and
> 	by the way non-existing as such, is accepted whereas
> 	<name>/.. is not accepted.

Interesting.  Under SR9.7 Domain/IX, I get

	% ls foo/.
	foo/.
	% ls foo/..
	[ ls of the directory that foo is in ]

Doesn't happen under ultrix or SunOS

Mike Khaw
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