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Given that (and I could be wrong here) Perl was first developed on Unix and Unix takes the view that files and directories are the same thing I'm not surprised. A directory on *nix is just a file of I-Node pointers with file names as the index key. (an oversimplified explanation I realize)
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Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional<br>
Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg<br>
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