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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>Note that any program which assumes that a file doesn't change length while
>it's being read (or written ;)) should probably be considered broken.  I
>believe ftp is one of these; so is rcp.

Try `tar cf /dev/null /proc' for a large collection of errors or
Lite2's wc on /proc/*/* for a small collection of errors (it stops on
the first error :-().

Bruce