Re: Don't concat directories to file names

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 6/25/07, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

> Not everything is a file.  But a directory is a file on all OSes I know that
> includes VMS).

I must be misremembering VMS. Neither at the command prompt nor in the
programming API were directories treated as files IIRC.

Also, in MS-DOS, there was some trickery to simulate that directories
were files, but you couldn't, for example, get the size of one, or
directly write onto it as a file. At least that's what I remember of
some distant past.

            Juanma