Re: What is this????

[ktb <xyf@inetnebr.com>]

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