Richard Fish schreef:
> On 1/7/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Don't think I really need the inodes (if that's what they are, I
> 
> 
> That is "link count".  For a regular file, it tells how many hard 
> links exist to the file.  For a directory, it tells how many files
> are in that directory +2, since "." and ".." count as links.
> 
> -Richard
> 

Oh, thanks. They *are* useful then (not that everything isn't "useful",
but I guess I mean "to me"), so I'll eye them with more respect in the
future.

:-)

Holly
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