On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:33:25AM +1000, Paul Wickham wrote: > Im surprised that you ignore type 5 since the ietf draft says 'UKNOWN should > be used if the type is not known' which would mean it should be used a fair > bit on a windows server as windows determines filetype based on filename > and not mode....
Nope. Plain files and directories are _not_ distinguished by file name on windows. -- Alexander.