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Re: Don't concat directories to file names
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Don't concat directories to file names |
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Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:39:20 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:27:30 +0200
>> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>>
>> Also, in MS-DOS, there was some trickery to simulate that directories
>> were files, but you couldn't, for example, get the size of one, or
>> directly write onto it as a file.
>
> Directories _are_ files on MSDOS, they are just special files, in that
> some file I/O functions fail for them.
I seem to remember that the root directory on a disk is not a file.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, (continued)
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, David Kastrup, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Stefan Monnier, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, David Kastrup, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Stefan Monnier, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Andreas Schwab, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/25
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/22
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/20
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/06/20
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/21
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, David Kastrup, 2007/06/21
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Juanma Barranquero, 2007/06/21
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/06/16
- Re: Don't concat directories to file names, Richard Stallman, 2007/06/16