>>>>> "Kent" == Kent West <westk@acu.edu> writes:
>> prw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 25 15:33 gpmdata crw------- 1 root
>> root 10, 1 Jul 5 2000 psaux
>>
Kent> "c" means it's a character device, sending one character of
Kent> data at a time, like a mouse or keyboard. "b" is a block
Kent> device, like a hard drive, where a whole chunk of
Kent> information (sector? cluster?) is sent at a time. I'm not
Kent> sure what "p" means, but it may be part of the /proc system,
"p" is a named pipe, typically used for interprocess communication.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>