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Date:      Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:40:57 +0100 (CET)
From:      Thomas Schuerger <schuerge@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE>
To:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   cat bug
Message-ID:  <199903091040.LAA21691@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de>

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Hi!

When using "cat" on a directory instead of a file, "cat" will output garbage characters.
I haven't found anything in the manpages about it, but I think it should produce an error
instead, just like Solaris or Linux does it (e.g. Linux says: "cat: /tmp: Is a directory").


Ciao,
Thomas.



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