From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 13:18:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498BF37B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 13:18:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from d141-117-39.home.cgocable.net ([24.141.117.39] helo=genisis) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 14KRrx-00056c-00; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:17:49 -0500 Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:24:29 -0500 (EST) From: Dru X-Sender: genisis@genisis To: Chip Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: files with an asterisk are not editable - why? In-Reply-To: <3A6B5197.CB021D6A@wiegand.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Chip wrote: > I have some homework files I have been working > on, and for some reason they now have an asterisk > by the name, and I cannot edit them. What could > have caused this? What does an "ls -lF" of the directory these files live in say? Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message