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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Two identical filenames in one directory!
Message-ID: <1246@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Date: 29 Sep 89 15:08:42 GMT
References: <22@minya.UUCP>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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in article <22@minya.UUCP>, jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) says:

> On earlier versions of Unix, I'd know instantly what to do.  It's easy enough
> to write a program that runs thru a directory and extends each null byte to 
> the end of the entry.  But on Sys/V, this doesn't work, because nobody, not
> even root, can write a directory.  

I don't know about that.
Certainly fsdb can write to a directory.
So can ld.
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