df under Xenix 2.2.3 (and earlier?)

[Perry Hutchison]

In article <228 at flagship.UUCP> lucio at flagship.UUCP (Lucio) writes:

+ In sendbatch there is a test for the amount of free space available ...
+ On my machine the test should read:
+ 
+ 	df /usr/spool
+ 
+ [to which] df reports:
+ 
+ 	df: /usr/spool not block special

This may be a BSD vs Sys5 problem.  In SunOS 3.5 (based on 4.2 BSD) you can
provide a directory name and df will figure out the proper device.  Isn't
Xenix a Sys5 derivative?

Clearly the workaround is to change the df call to specify the proper device.