prasad@csvax.csc.lsu.edu (Prasad Anant S.) (08/14/90)
Can anyone out there help me out with how to get the list server or keeper's namnamem e for USENET? Thanks Prasad
c029nit@utarlg.utarl.edu (NITEEN DAMLE) (10/22/90)
Hi ! I am a novice to the UNIX and I hv a question which u people might be able to answer. Last night I was browsing through the directories using ls command with -l option. In dev directory I found letters s, c, b for some of the names in place of d. I want to know what these letters stand for. Only I know that d means directory. l " link. [am I correct? ] - " file. Regds Niteen S. Damle. c029nit@utarlg.utarl.edu
hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com (Greg Hunt) (10/23/90)
In article <9409@helios.TAMU.EDU>, c029nit@utarlg.utarl.edu (NITEEN DAMLE) writes: > I am a novice to the UNIX and I hv a question which u people might be able > to answer. > Last night I was browsing through the directories using ls command with -l > option. In dev directory I found letters s, c, b for some of the names in place > of d. > I want to know what these letters stand for. > Only I know that d means directory. > l " link. [am I correct? ] > - " file. Yup, l means the file is a symbolic link and - means it is a regular file. A b means it is a block special file (to be read and written in blocks - usually 512 bytes at a chunk) and c means it is a character special file (to be read and written a character at a time). These two are usually applied to devices, like disks and terminals, which is why you found their entries in /dev. I don't know what the s stands for. You can find more details in the man page for ls, which you can read with the command "man ls". Enjoy! -- Greg Hunt Internet: hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com DG/UX Kernel Development UUCP: {world}!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!hunt Data General Corporation Research Triangle Park, NC These opinions are mine, not DG's.
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (10/24/90)
p is pipe. Try man ls if you don't have bound manuals handy. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
kepowers@mbunix.mitre.org (Powers) (11/07/90)
>Yup, l means the file is a symbolic link and - means it is a regular >file. A b means it is a block special file (to be read and written >in blocks - usually 512 bytes at a chunk) and c means it is a character >special file (to be read and written a character at a time). These two >are usually applied to devices, like disks and terminals, which is >why you found their entries in /dev. I don't know what the s stands >for. It stands for socket. -- Kelly-Erin Powers The MITRE Corporation Unix Systems Group Burlington Road (617) 271-2143 Bedford, MA 01730 kepowers@mbunix.mitre.org linus!mbunix!kepowers
mr794348%cs.nthu.edu.tw@cunyvm.cuny.edu (mr794348) (05/27/91)
How to sub "UNIX Info" ? Thank you in advance !!