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From: boyer@sumax.seattleu.edu (Chuck Boyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: pcMinix, Help; ansi character dir names, removal.
Message-ID: <2936@sumax.seattleu.edu>
Date: 20 Jun 91 05:44:19 GMT
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle, WA
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Thank you for your attention to this post.
I am using Minix 1.3 on an at.
I have had two strange directories created in my /usr directory;

drwxrwxrwx   2   root    32  Jan1 1970  >3LR
drwxrwxrwx   2   root    32  Jan1 1970  |^

created, perhaps in the process of un'tar'ing or compress -d some files?
(The same thing happened to me on my Unix machine at work, and the sysop
suggested that that was perhaps how it was created)
At work 'rm -r \|\^ worked to remove the dirs (the characters were different).
On Minix I tried lots of variations of the above without results. Hmmm...

(rm -r \|\^, rm -r '\|\^', rmdir \|\^, rmdir |^, rmdir -r |^, rmdir -f |^)
etc.
Is there any harm in having those bogus dirs there? (I like to keep a clean
structure). Also, could somebody please explain to me what the numbers
mean in the ls node listing above and below?

drwxrwxrwx   11  root  192  Jun 13 20:21  src

For instance; what is the 11 in reference to? and the 192, I guessed that
the 32 is an empty directory, because I created a directory and it had that
number on it also. (I can surmise the date and time.

Thanks,
chuck

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