Re: Don't concat directories to file names

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:27:30 +0200
> From: "Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Also, in MS-DOS, there was some trickery to simulate that directories
> were files, but you couldn't, for example, get the size of one, or
> directly write onto it as a file.

Directories _are_ files on MSDOS, they are just special files, in that
some file I/O functions fail for them.