In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 20 Dec 2004 02:51:24 -0500, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
schwern> MMS cannot handle a directory as a target, but it handles schwern> files just fine. VMS happens to have an odd quirk where each schwern> directory is a file. [.path.to.a.dir] is really schwern> [.path.to.a]dir.dir. [1] If I may... The quirk isn't that a directory is a file on VMS, it's a file on Unix and on DOS/Windows as well. The quirk is the syntax itself. On Unix, you use the exact same syntax to look at the directory file itself and to read through the contents, while on VMS, you have on syntax to look at the directory file itself and a different syntax to look through the contents of that same directory. Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis
