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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2-RELEASE problem (simple)
Date: 27 Mar 1997 17:35:50 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <3339CFEE.225D@onthenet.com.au>,
Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> writes:
[.....]
> $ dir foobar.txt
> <...some output...>
> $ type foobar.txt
> -TYPE-F-FNF, file not found
> $
>
> This had me going for a while until I asked them to "dump" the file
> rather than
> type it. Turned out that some prankster had put the error message in
> the file
> so it looked like there was an error when everything was working fine!!!
Another good one like that - I still get confused when it happens:
$ ls xxx*
xxx.1
xxx.2
xxx.3
yyy
Of course there's one and only one xxx* directory, containing the
listed files :)
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !