From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 26 19:21:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.mato.com (Mail.mato.com [199.240.78.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEBC014F04 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:21:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dragonk@mato.com) Received: from dragonk [199.240.78.241] by mail.mato.com with smtp id 118wra-0004UC-00; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:21:07 -0600 Message-ID: <004001bed7d6$a924ffa0$0101a8c0@mato.com> From: "Dragon Knight ][" To: "Penny Huston" , References: <003301bed7a7$e9793e60$98050418@cm336252-d.ftwrth1.tx.home.com> Subject: Re: anotherthing Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:20:52 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, FreeBSD uses a little different 'system' than dos. As far as executable files go, a file is executable if it has an executable flag set. try an 'ls -l' you will get a listing something like this: -rw-r--r-- 1 dragonk dragonk 189892 Jul 7 1980 binchunker.zip -rwxr-xr-x 1 dragonk dragonk 3571 Jun 29 1980 burn drwxr-xr-x 2 dragonk dragonk 512 Jul 12 1980 c the first file can only be read, the (and written to by the user dragonk), the second is executable, which you can tell because of the x's, the third is a directory, leading d. It does not matter what a file is named, or what the extension is. any file can be executable. A really good explanation of this can be found in several places if I recall, freebsd.org, or Greg Lehey's Complete FreeBSD are great sources. Samuel > What are the file names of things and what do they do?? An exe is an > executable file and an executiable file is used a file that is run. What is > the equivilent to exe and all the others?? > E-mail jhuston1@home.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message