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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu,  3 Feb 2011 20:49:17 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] files vs. directories
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> 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.

i don't see how allowing this is a misfeature.  regardless,
plan 9 allows it.

; sha1sum < /adm/timezone
05d16cd216a58fae746ae36f72c784d10bcc1392

- erik