big iron unix

[Platypus]

AIX/370 which was AIX running on big IBM iron...

Good Lord! You live and learn!

I've been around UNIX for 20+ years, but never mainframe stuff.

[darmstadt]

And I forgot, there is now a port of Solaris to big iron...

[expat]

Well I just logged onto one of my zOS 1.9 systems and using both omvs and ish couldn't find any but:

The first character indicates whether this is a file or directory.

* - for a regular file (binary or text)
* c for a character special file
* d for a directory
* e for an external link
* l for a symbolic link
* p for a named pipe (FIFO special file)

In the example, - indicates a regular file.

So everybody else finds exactly the same as I do.

I especially liked Spacecadet's "Google for Dummies". Par for this course, dummy.

[Spacecadet]

I especially liked Spacecadet's "Google for Dummies". Par for this course, dummy.

i should get some tips from HRH before trying to be "clever"

[expat]

i should get some tips from HRH before trying to be "clever"

and I from Threaded before trying to be insulting?

[Ardesco]

* e for an external link

So everybody else finds exactly the same as I do.

I especially liked Spacecadet's "Google for Dummies". Par for this course, dummy.

Hmm didn't darmstadt answer it above....

I would expect the external link to be a link to a resource on another computer. If it displays the link in the same way as a symbolic link when doing an ls -l you should be able to see exactly where it is linking to.