Ron Rademaker wrote: > > I found this file somewhere: > > c---r----- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts > > Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? > > This 'thing' is the reason for some trouble with apt / dpkg (something to > do with xlib6g-dev) perhaps this c has something to do with that. > > Ron >
>From the http://www.debian.org/~hp/tutorial/debian-tutorial.html/ch-advanced.html#s-advanced-files page: 16.2.2 Types of files One detail we've been concealing up to now is that the Linux kernel considers nearly everything to be a file. That includes directories and devices: they're just special kinds of files. As you may remember, the first character of an ls -l display represents the type of the file. For an ordinary file, this will be simply -. Other possibilities are: d (directory) l (symbolic link) b (block device) c (character device) p (named pipe) s (socket) hth give you a start in answering your question, kent