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From: presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 08:47:25 -0400
To: arisawa@al.aichi-u.ac.jp, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] access(name,mode)
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I tried this with both our file server and a local kfs as
file server and got:

presotto@who% 8c a.c
presotto@who% 8l a.8
presotto@who% 8.out
-1
0
0

in both cases.  What exactly are you using for a file system?

Also, I don't quite understand the line:

term% 8l -o 8.a a.8

Is this just a typo or do you have your own library 8.a?