another unix joke

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.ARPA
Thu Sep 15 21:57:39 AEST 1988


In article <26090 at ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> bostic at ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Keith Bostic) writes:
>> mkdir: foo/: No such file or directory
>> rmdir: foo/: Is a directory
>Though I'm not sure what you're trying say, ...

I just thought it was amusing that the "reasons" given for failure
of the operations were what they were.  Can't create a directory
because it doesn't exist yet; can't remove a directory because it
is a directory.



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