From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 21 08:49:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA13084 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 08:49:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from Post-Office.UH.EDU (Post-Office.UH.EDU [129.7.1.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA13075 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 08:49:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from egret (Egret.EGR.UH.EDU) by Post-Office.UH.EDU (PMDF V5.0-5 #8380) id <01I1H0O8PMDC00030M@Post-Office.UH.EDU> for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 10:49:34 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 10:49:34 -0600 (CST) Date-warning: Date header was inserted by Post-Office.UH.EDU From: melrobin@Jetson.UH.EDU (Melvin Deloyd Robinson) Subject: Executable files X-Sender: melrobin@jetson.uh.edu To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01I1H0OCDFXA00030M@Post-Office.UH.EDU> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk At the University of Houston we use Next machines and I noticed that when I list files the ones that are executable have an asterick beside them. For instance if I compiled melvin.c as cc -o melvin melvin.c the file would look list like this melvin* upon listing. This is pretty neat because you can kinda tell what type of file it is simply by looking at it without typing fun file or looking at the permissions. Is this a feature that is set on login? Any of you UNIX hackers know how can I emulate this with FreeBSD? Thanks, Melvin