This is not a bug report but a question from a beginner concerning "od".
     The "Unix Programming Environment" by Kernighan and Pike uses od
on a directory ( Sec. 2.3).  Linux's od rejects the request, saying
"Is a directory".  Why will it not dump it?  This is related to a more
general question.  Their point was that "everything in Unix is a
file."  Is this statement untrue in Linux?
==============  Bob Armstrong  ================

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