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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:50:06 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@egroups.net>
Subject: Re: bin/19537: patch to prevent cat'ing directories
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The following reply was made to PR bin/19537; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@egroups.net>
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Subject: Re: bin/19537: patch to prevent cat'ing directories
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:47:19 -0700 (PDT)

   BDE kindly pointed out that POSIX specifies that for cat:
 	The input files can be any file type.
 
   That includes directories, so this PR is bogus. Please close. Thanks,
 
   Kelly
 
 


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