In looking at a list of permissions in a directory listing (ls -l) i've encountered c,s, and b in the first column for entries in the /dev directory. I understand that - means a file, l is a link and d is a directory, what do these other letters indicate? Also, if I try to copy one of these (with a "c" prefix) it does not copy. What's going on? gv. ____________________________________________________ | | | Gary Vinyard | | Department of Biology /314 | | University of Nevada | | Reno, Nevada 89557-0015 | | | | gvinyard@med.unr.edu | | <A HREF="http://www.brrc.unr.edu"><A HREF="http://www.brrc.unr.edu</A">http://www.brrc.unr.edu</A</A>> | |____________________________________________________| - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e