On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:42:39 +0000 smiley@zenzebra.mv.com wrote: > There's no way that I know of to possibly interperet a path ending in > "/" as a file (with the exception of reading raw Dir data, as on Plan > 9 or "cat /" on, what was it, Solaris?). FreeBSD 8.0 lets you cat the raw data of a directory, and I would expect the other free BSDs to have that misfeature, too. Robert Ransom