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Date:      Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:56:02 +1200
From:      "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org>
To:        "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>, "Chris Byrnes" <chris@jeah.net>, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: tail
Message-ID:  <KPECIILENDDLPCNIMLOFIEOJCCAA.juha@saarinen.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010429221233.A99057@xor.obsecurity.org>

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:: UNIX is about doing what you ask for.  You want to tail/cat a
:: directory, who is the system to tell you otherwise.

That's just silly.

Who hasn't mistakenly tailed/cat'ed a directory? 

I thought the "User-unfriendliness Is Cool" era was long buried.

-- Juha

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