In teh following: -rw-r--r-- 1 lisi lisi 19503 2011-01-28 21:12 Etch_repositories.odt I can see eight pieces of information: permissions, directory or file (information that is also at the beginning of the permissions), owner, group (or group, owner), size, date, name of file or directory. What are these called? I have always called them fields, but it would appear that I am wrong to do so. Thanks, Lisi