From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Wessle Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: dired strange output Date: 24 Oct 2006 01:59:28 +1000 Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@iprimus.com.au Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161621673 27722 80.91.229.2 (23 Oct 2006 16:41:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:41:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 23 18:41:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc2qj-0002OH-4A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:40:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc2qi-00078H-LV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:40:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.pacific.net.au!token.pipenetworks.com!218.100.2.59.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 58.178.79.7 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 Original-X-Trace: 1161619126 un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au 4669 203.134.67.67:1533 Original-X-Complaints-To: Abuse, including message IDs to abuse@pipenetworks.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142578 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38201 Archived-At: Hi I noticed a line in my dired that looks like this lrwxrwxrwx 1 fred fred 42 Oct 24 01:05 .#myfile.cpp -> fred@localhost.localdomain.3415:1161501575 what does it mean to have a symlink to "fred@localhost.localdomain.3415:1161501575"? the shell output in xterm does not show it at all. thanks