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> what does 'file' tell you?
>> what the heck is 
>> # ls -li /usr/\@LongLink 
>> 3 ----------  1 root  wheel  111 Jan  1  1970 /usr/@LongLink

@LongLink: ASCII text, with no line terminators

what disturbs me is the inode number

randy
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