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At 01:54 PM 07/09/2003 -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
> > 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


What does
find / -inum 3 -ls
show it linked to ?

         ---Mike