From: dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de
Subject: RE: RCS port
9 Jan 1997 15:57:06 -0800
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Hi Kevin, you wrote:

: PS when checking these facts for the posting I did an ls -ali > fred.
: fred was created with the right data but I also got
: ls: fred: Permission denied
: 
: if i do ls who* > fred it works fine. any ideas??????????

Permission denied is the wrong error message, it should say file locked,
or even better not lock at all by default for best unix emulation!
fred is opened for write first, then ls tries to access this file...
Something like ls -ali > /tmp/fred should work!

Bye, Heribert (dahms AT ifk20 DOT mach DOT uni-karlsruhe DOT de)
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