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Date:      Sun, 12 Apr 1998 19:52:40 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
To:        proot@horton.iaces.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what are the asterisks for'
Message-ID:  <199804130052.TAA03480@horton.iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <199804110027.TAA10520@epcot.spdc.ti.com> from "kf7nn@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>" at "Apr 10, 98 07:27:48 pm"

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In a previous message, kf7nn@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org> said:
> I noticed these asterisks and was wondering what they mean.
> 
> 
> > ls
> 
> 00_index.txt*   ckdist.man*     fips.exe*       osbs135.exe*    restorrb.exe*
> README*         dist/           fips15c.tar.gz* osbsbeta.exe*   setup.exe*
> boot.bin*       extipl.exe*     gunzip.exe*     pfdisk.exe*     setup.hlp*
> bootinst.exe*   fbsdboot.exe*   gzip.exe*       presizer/       srcs/
> ckdist.exe*     fdimage.exe*    ide_conf.exe*   rawrite.exe*
> 
> > pwd
> 
> Current remote directory: /archive2/FreeBSD/tools
> ftp2.freebsd.org                                         /archive2/FreeBSD/tools
> ftp2>                                                         

It means that the file is executable. Which if you look at the files seems
kind of silly. I used ncftp to produce this listing. 

Use the -F command to ls to get similar results.


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