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- From: wjb5106@rigel.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett)
- Subject: Re: First column of DIR == ?
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- References: <1992Sep7.094642.12692@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 20:18:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep7.094642.12692@nuscc.nus.sg>, swknasri@nuscc.nus.sg (Sriram N (Dr)) writes...
- >
- >I did a DIR in the root of my HPFS drive and found to my surprise
- >that some subdirectories have positive numbers on the first
- >column to the left (this is usually 0 for both files and dirs).
- >This column is just next to the filename.
- >
- >What does this mean? Incidentally, I saw a CMD file in one of
- >the subdirectories that has a large (40000+) number in the first
- >column (it is about 32k in size, as indicated by the second columni).
- >
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- These are the extended attributes for the files. The large EA on the
- *.cmd file is because the command processor stores information about
- REXX scripts in the EAs for faster subsequent execution.
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- Walter Barnett Aerospace Engineering Texas A&M University
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