On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:59:26 +0000, Tom Van Looy wrote: >on unix everything is a file?
Always has been. At least as far back as I can remember - about early 1978. Probably always will. And, given the thread running here, my second edition of the Unix Programmers Manual vol 1 from those days states baldly: "Cp (sic) refuses to copy a file onto itself." 8-) Rod In the beginning was The Word and The Word was Content-type: text/plain The Word of Rod.
